Beyondism: Religion from Science
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... characters arise almost everywhere and by experience of the group weakness and confusion that arise on their absence . ... others are obscure and have been tentatively adopted and re - adopted over thousands of years of experience .
... characters arise almost everywhere and by experience of the group weakness and confusion that arise on their absence . ... others are obscure and have been tentatively adopted and re - adopted over thousands of years of experience .
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The scientist has had experiences in , say , recognizing the irrational value we call Planck's constant , or recognizing light as having both wave and corpuscle properties , incompatible with our experience of waves and projectiles ...
The scientist has had experiences in , say , recognizing the irrational value we call Planck's constant , or recognizing light as having both wave and corpuscle properties , incompatible with our experience of waves and projectiles ...
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The decisions of democracy require surely many years of experience - and from this conclusion the cheap politics of dropping the voting age from 21 to 18 is a regression . But there should also be tests of sanity and freedom from crime ...
The decisions of democracy require surely many years of experience - and from this conclusion the cheap politics of dropping the voting age from 21 to 18 is a regression . But there should also be tests of sanity and freedom from crime ...
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Contents
Preface | vii |
Among Groups Not Individuals? | x |
What Has Group Competition To Do With Ethics | 13 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Beyondism: Religion from Science |
| Author | Raymond Bernard Cattell |
| Publisher | Praeger, 1987 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 22 Mar 2006 |
| ISBN | 0275924319, 9780275924317 |
| Length | 325 pages |
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