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Definition of Maybes
1. maybe [n] - See also: maybe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maybes
Literary usage of Maybes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James (1911)
"So far as man stands for anything, and is productive or originative at all, his
entire vital function may be said to have to deal with maybes. ..."
2. Ethical Addresses and Ethical Record by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress), American Ethical Union (1905)
"hears the positivist contemptuously exclaim; "what use can a scientific life have
for maybes?" Well, I reply, the "scientific" life itself has much to do ..."
3. Is Life Worth Living? by William James (1904)
"So far as man stands for anything, and is productive or originative at all, his
entire vital function may be said to be to deal with maybes. ..."
4. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1852)
"maybes," suggested Deacon Elliot, whose scraggy neck peered over the heads of
the crowd, much in the way that a crane looks over n wall, " maybes it would ..."
5. Schopenhauer's System in Its Philosophical Significance by William Caldwell (1896)
"You make one or the other of two possible universes true by your trust or mistrust,
both universes having been only maybes, in this particular, ..."
6. Reason, Faith and Authority in Christianity: Being the Paddock Lectures for by Alfred Magill Randolph (1902)
"But mistrust yourself and think of all the sweet things you have heard the
scientists say of maybes, and you will hesitate so long that, ..."
7. The Concept of Control by Savilla Alice Elkus (1907)
"But mistrust yourself, and think of all the sweet things you have heard the
scientists say of maybes, and you will hesitate so long that, at last, ..."
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