According to Wikipedia: ''The Will to Believe' is a lecture by William James, first published in 1896, which defends, in certain cases, the adoption of a belief without prior evidence of its truth. In particular, James is concerned in this lecture about defending the rationality of religious faith even lacking sufficient evidence of religious truth. James' central argument in 'The Will to Believe' hinges on the idea that access to the evidence for whether or not certain beliefs are true depends ...