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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q2. The Self and Its Brain by Karl Popper and John C. Eccles (Routledge and Kegan Paul 1977).
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q1. In a letter to a fellow physicist, Henry P. Stapp, Werner Heisenberg tells of his differences with Russell. I think that you [Stapp] ha...
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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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