Part one of term paper
In The Will to Believe, James defends freely embraced faith. He defends it because many people, who have been taught to be "logical", refuses to understand how he can have faith in religion. He starts by defining some essential concepts. He defines a hypothesis as anything that may be presented to our belief. An option is making the choice b ...

Part two of term paper
... to a person. The option does not concern the person and cannot relate with it. It is when the individual has no awareness or knowledge about the hypotheses. An option may be either forced or avoidable. It is forced when we have to choose one of two choices and we cannot escape from it by not making a decision. It is an avoidable option when we can escape from choosing between them. An option is also either momentous or trivial. A momentous option means the individual is in the position to choos ...