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What's in a Name? - Reflections on Language, Magic, and Religion (Paperback)
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What's in a Name? - Reflections on Language, Magic, and Religion (Paperback)
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We may smile to be told that, in some cultures, the eating of timid
or ugly animals is believed to make the eater timid or ugly. Yet,
equally fundamental misunderstandings of the relations between
things, words and ideas are rife among Western thinkers. In this
provocative essay, G.A. Wells identifies some influential mistakes
about language embedded in the empiricist philosophical tradition
of Locke, Russell and Ayer. Wells shows how these errors stimulated
a religious backlash, in which faith became coupled with
commonsense realism, in such writers as Keith Ward, Teilhard de
Chardin and Thomas Altizer. Similar misconceptions gave rise both
to the behaviourism of Watson and Ryle, and to the
anti-behaviourist Chomskyan reaction with its chimera of a
"universal grammar". Magical thinking, the writer claims, derives
from plausible errors concerning the efficacy of gestures and
words, and survives even though these errors have been refuted.
Wells illustrates the influence of misconceptions about language as
they manifest themselves in contemporary religious apologetics.
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