What's in a Name? Reflections on Language, Magic, and Religion |
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| Author:
| Wells, George Albert |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8126-9238-9 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1993 |
| Publisher: | Open Court
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $36.95 |
Book Description:
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Wells identifies influential mistakes about language embedded in the empiricist philosophical tradition of Locke, Russell and Ayer. He shows how these errors stimulated a religious backlash, in which faith became coupled with commonsense realism. He also covers behaviourism and magical thinking.
Wells identifies influential mistakes about language embedded in the empiricist philosophical tradition of Locke, Russell and Ayer. He shows how these errors stimulated a religious backlash, in which faith became coupled with commonsense realism. He also covers behaviourism and magical thinking.