Rationality: The Critical View
In our papers on the rationality of magic, we distinghuished, for purposes of analysis, three levels of rationality. First and lowest (rationalitYl) the goal directed action of an agent with given aims and circumstances, where among his circumstances we included his knowledge and opinions. On this level the magician's treatment of illness by incantation is as rational as any traditional doctor's blood-letting or any modern one's use of anti-biotics. At the second level (rationalitY2) we add the element of rational thinking or thinking which obeys some set of explicit rules, a level which is not found in magic in general, though it is sometim…
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Weitere Autoren: Jarvie, I. C. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-90-247-3455-9
- EAN: 9789024734559
- Produktnummer: 11041504
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1987
- Seitenangabe: 496 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.4 cm x D3.2 cm 762 g
- Auflage: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 762
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