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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mnb1. In this connection, we have a note by F.H. Bradley, the idealist philosopher: So far as I know Prof. James never even raised the ques...
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ztt2. In a 1924 article, "Logical Atomism," Russell expounds on neutral monism: I will take another illustration, a kind of probl...
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Please go to new Part C page here. A discussion of The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle (Oxford 1949) A Whitehead light experience...
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