cv20. One could suppose that animistic thinking arose naturally as a function of language, and vice versa. The ability to generalize arises from the ability to project and detect danger or benefit when one situation is recognized as "similar" to others. Recognition of time-space patterns is common to animals, but acutely developed among humans, who have the capacity of intra-species adjustable communication: i.e. language.
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FN dgh.754. Science and Human Behavior by B.F. Skinner (Macmillan 1953).
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cw1. The materialist point of view goes back a long way. In Plato's Phaedo , Socrates denounces it.
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DRF.31. Russell was a contributor to The Monist , a philosophy journal... Another early contributor was Ernst Mach. Yet another was Ernst H...
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Please go to new Part A page here. A discussion of The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle (Oxford 1949) ¶ Ghost slips Ryle's gr...
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