The point of William James’s story about the squirrel was

a. the need to get clear on the facts involved in a dispute.
b. the difficulty of knowing what we are observing.
c. the need to make our concepts as clear as possible.
d. there are no true opinions about anything.


c. the need to make our concepts as clear as possible.

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