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GRAND THEORIES AND EVERYDAY BELIEFS
GRAND THEORIES AND EVERYDAY BELIEFS
Subtitle:
Science, Philosophy, and their Histories
Book Category:
Philosophy > General
Author:
Wallace Matson
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 10:
0199812691
ISBN 13:
9780199812691
Price:
USD 35.00
Publication Year:
2011

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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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