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What's in a Name?: Reflections on Language, Magic, and Religion
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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What's in a Name?: Reflections on Language, Magic, and Religion
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) George Albert Wells
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:250 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 228,Width 152 |
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| Category/Genre | Philosophy of language
History of Western philosophy
Religion - general
Mysticism |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780812692396
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| Classifications | Dewey:410 |
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| Audience | | Undergraduate | | Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly | | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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| Imprint |
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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| Publication Date |
18 November 1993 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
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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