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

Name: What's in a Name?: Reflections on Language, Magic, and Religion [Paperback]
Brand: Open Court
SKU: 101471177
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Author: Wells, George Albert

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Category: Books (Language Arts & Disciplines)
Author: Wells, George Albert
Author: Wells, George Albert
ISBN-10: 081269239X
ISBN-10: 081269239X
ISBN-13: 9780812692396
ISBN-13: 9780812692396
Publisher: Open Court
Publisher: Open Court
Pages: 250
Pages: 250
Binding: Paperback
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: 01-Nov-1993
Pub Date: 01-Nov-1993
SKU: 081269239X-11-MPOD
SKU: 081269239X-11-MPOD
Item ID: 101471177
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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.