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A member of this family attributed his visions of a mummy-like “epileptic patient” to the “French correspondent.” Bernard Williams analyzed a character created by a member of this family to argue that all seemingly “external” reasons are actually “internal.” (10[1])The moral philosophy of a member of this family is the subject of Martha Nussbaum essays like “Finely Aware and Richly Responsible” and “Flawed Crystals.” A member of this family imagined the Mahdī posing him a version of Pascal’s wager, which would be in vain because faith in the Mahdī is a “dead hypothesis” for him. (10[1])A member of this family distinguished types of “options” (10[1])in a lecture (10[2])critiquing a maxim (10[1])condemning belief (10[1])“without sufficient evidence” (10[2])proposed (10[1])by W. K. Clifford. (10[3])For 10 points, name this family of a novelist and his (10[1])brother, (10[2])the author (10[1])of “The Will (10[1])to Believe.” (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[1])

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