Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the UnknownMacmillan, 1 апр. 2010 г. - Всего страниц: 336 Bestselling author Michael Shermer delves into the unknown, from heretical ideas about the boundaries of the universe to Star Trek's lessons about chance and time |
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... the cave ( peculiarities of thought unique to the individual that distort how facts are processed in a single mind ) , idols of the marketplace ( the lim- its of language and how confusion arises when we talk. xii // Introduction.
... thought endemic to all of us -- the tribe --- that place limits on knowledge ) . " Idols are the profoundest fallacies of the mind of man , " Bacon explained . " Nor do they deceive in particulars ... but from a corrupt and crookedly ...
... thought Michael Jordan , 79 percent selected Mother Teresa , and , at 87 percent , the person most likely to go to heaven was the survey taker ! Experimental evidence of such cognitive idols has been provided by Introduction || ххі.
... thought out their linguistic and historical meaning and usages , but it was not until the late Stephen Jay Gould wrote the foreword to my book Why People Believe Weird Things , in which he discussed the meaning of skepticism , that I ...
... over the years as I thought more and more about who and what mattered most in history . The germination of this project , in fact , dates back to the early 1970s when I was an undergraduate and one of my Introduction \\ XXXV.
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