
GRAND THEORIES AND EVERYDAY BELIEFS |
Subtitle:
Science, Philosophy, and their Histories
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Book Category:
Philosophy > General
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Author:
Wallace Matson
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Binding:
Hardcover
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ISBN 10:
0199812691
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ISBN 13:
9780199812691
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Price:
USD 35.00
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Publication Year:
2011
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Publisher Info
Oxford University Press. InquiryBook Description
After a Darwinian-type account of what beliefs are and how they arose in animals acting to cope with their environments--"low beliefs," virtually all of which are true--Wallace Matson here shows how the invention of language led to imagination and thence to beliefs formed in other ways ("high beliefs"), not true though thought to be,
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