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... examples of states of imperfect mental evolution . As in the past and now , so then , wiser descendants shall wonder to think that rational beings could ever have been so very irrational as their forefathers . Does it not seem strange ...
... examples of states of imperfect mental evolution . As in the past and now , so then , wiser descendants shall wonder to think that rational beings could ever have been so very irrational as their forefathers . Does it not seem strange ...
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... example , persons of culture who make for themselves the dis- mayful discovery that they cannot go on believing in a personal God , are happy to take refuge in more general terms and abstractions , such as Deism and Pantheism , and make ...
... example , persons of culture who make for themselves the dis- mayful discovery that they cannot go on believing in a personal God , are happy to take refuge in more general terms and abstractions , such as Deism and Pantheism , and make ...
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... example of observation , nothing more instructive as an illus- tration of a common fallacy of observation . As in reasoning , so in perception , the tendency to generalize FALLACIES OF COINCIDENCE . 29 § Fallacies of Coincidence in ...
... example of observation , nothing more instructive as an illus- tration of a common fallacy of observation . As in reasoning , so in perception , the tendency to generalize FALLACIES OF COINCIDENCE . 29 § Fallacies of Coincidence in ...
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... examples of fallacious obser- vations and of superstitious theories ; and for the same reason - namely , the extreme difficulties of observation and the strong propensity to supernatural beliefs where mystery and fear prevail . The ...
... examples of fallacious obser- vations and of superstitious theories ; and for the same reason - namely , the extreme difficulties of observation and the strong propensity to supernatural beliefs where mystery and fear prevail . The ...
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... example of this process of demoralization in the ease with which one who begins by telling , in dramatic fashion , stories that excite wonder goes on sometimes to exaggerate and embellish and invent * It was no demerit , but a merit ...
... example of this process of demoralization in the ease with which one who begins by telling , in dramatic fashion , stories that excite wonder goes on sometimes to exaggerate and embellish and invent * It was no demerit , but a merit ...
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