The New Nonsense: The End of the Rational ConsensusAnalyzes the embracing of non-rational ideas or beliefs in the face of contradictory evidence as a harbinger of social collapse. |
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... theory fails to account for two important facts . One is that a people can become revolutionary ( as we did , for instance , in the 1960s ) under conditions not nearly as bad as those they put up with only a few decades earlier . The ...
... theory fails to account for two important facts . One is that a people can become revolutionary ( as we did , for instance , in the 1960s ) under conditions not nearly as bad as those they put up with only a few decades earlier . The ...
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... theory of emotion , and psychoanalysis in its most monumental form ) has been toward the conclusion that mind or the waking " I " is a sort of fiction . The Real You lies elsewhere- in the Unconscious , in reflexes , hormones , the Id ...
... theory of emotion , and psychoanalysis in its most monumental form ) has been toward the conclusion that mind or the waking " I " is a sort of fiction . The Real You lies elsewhere- in the Unconscious , in reflexes , hormones , the Id ...
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... theory is a simplification , which aims to show the order underlying diverse and puzzling events . Most theories , however , are wrong , and much minute effort is needed to establish whether they are or aren't . The issue , in ...
... theory is a simplification , which aims to show the order underlying diverse and puzzling events . Most theories , however , are wrong , and much minute effort is needed to establish whether they are or aren't . The issue , in ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
On Being a Believer | 33 |
Touch Hate Feel Etc | 42 |
Copyright | |
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