In the Excerpt from William James’s “The Will to believe” he claims that each time there is a hypothesis with two out comes there are three things it could be. (1. Living or dead, forced or avoidable, momentous or trivial) A living option is where the choices are given hold a provable truths or hard facts. A Forced Option is when the question/ hypothesis coroners you in “Forcing” you to answer the hypothesis, meaning giving a truthfully or an answer that you have some stake in. Like in the movie THE Matrix the character Morpheus gives the Neo the main character a “forced” choice in whether to accept the Red or Blue pill, this is forced this decision has stakes that will affect him. It’s not something that isn’t avoidable (its forced). A Momentous option is when a choice where when the option is a rare or unique, something that doesn’t happen that often or not at all. One example is whether a person is willing to go to mars when it is a one-way trip, this qualifies as a Momentous Option due to the how rare it is to go to mars just like the moon landing. A belief that fits all three is called a Genuine Option. I agree with James More than Clifford. Clifford way/ belief is too “black or white” it leaves no room to maneuver, it leaves out the ability to give reason to a belief. Sometimes a belief in nothing could be harmless or a belief could be somewhere in the middle or the “Grey” area like in the world we live in things aren’t always black or white. With James He leaves a way-out or at the very least some wiggle room to explain a belief to show that it isn’t all bad.
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