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Grand Theories and Everyday Beliefs: Science, Philosophy, and their Histories
Grand Theories and Everyday Beliefs Science Philosophy and their Histories
Author: Wallace Matson
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, which coul...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199812691
ISBN-10: 0199812691
Publication Date: 12/9/2011
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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