What's in a Name?: Reflections on Language, Magic, and Religion
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.
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What's in a Name?: Reflections on Language, Magic, and Religion
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.
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What's in a Name?: Reflections on Language, Magic, and Religion

What's in a Name?: Reflections on Language, Magic, and Religion

by George Albert Wells
What's in a Name?: Reflections on Language, Magic, and Religion

What's in a Name?: Reflections on Language, Magic, and Religion

by George Albert Wells

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780812692396
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
Publication date: 11/01/1993
Pages: 250
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
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