Grand Theories and Everyday Beliefs
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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, which could be consolidated into mythologies, the first Grand Unified Theories of Everything. Science began when Thales...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0199812691
ISBN13:9780199812691
Release Date:December 2011
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:240 Pages
Weight:1.02 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"
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