The New Nonsense: The End of the Rational ConsensusSimon and Schuster, 1974 - 287 páginas Analyzes the embracing of non-rational ideas or beliefs in the face of contradictory evidence as a harbinger of social collapse. |
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... anticurious . This , I suspect , is the law Mr. Silva is really talking about : ESP works when it must - when we have an overpowering need for it to do so — but not , like gravitation , when no 39 ON BEING A BELIEVER.
... anticurious . This , I suspect , is the law Mr. Silva is really talking about : ESP works when it must - when we have an overpowering need for it to do so — but not , like gravitation , when no 39 ON BEING A BELIEVER.
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... talking animals , their insistence on meaning and dignity in a world we know to be without either , they make the rest of us feel guilty in our degradation , and part of the fun of revolution is that it gives us a chance to get even ...
... talking animals , their insistence on meaning and dignity in a world we know to be without either , they make the rest of us feel guilty in our degradation , and part of the fun of revolution is that it gives us a chance to get even ...
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... talking about a type of business ordinarily involving no tangible product , its capital requirements are small and the number of competitors who can spring up at any given moment correspond- ingly enormous . Moreover , the incentive to ...
... talking about a type of business ordinarily involving no tangible product , its capital requirements are small and the number of competitors who can spring up at any given moment correspond- ingly enormous . Moreover , the incentive to ...
Contenido
Introduction | 9 |
On Being a Believer | 33 |
Touch Hate Feel Etc | 42 |
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Términos y frases comunes
According already American appears basic became become began beginning believe better brain called cause century civilizations clear comet coming communication condition course death described developed earth effect evidence exist experience fact faith fear feel finally forces give given happened human ideas instance instincts interest involved kind later Lawrence less lives look major mass matter means mind moral nature needed never nonsense notion object occurred odds once original perhaps period political possible present principle probably problem produced question rational reason reports result scientific scientists seems sense showed simply social society sort suggests talking tells theory things thought tion true trying turn UFOs understand universe Velikovsky whole