The Myth of the Closed Mind

The Myth of the Closed Mind
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Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 9780812696851
ISBN-13 : 0812696859
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Book Synopsis The Myth of the Closed Mind by : Ray Scott Percival

Download or read book The Myth of the Closed Mind written by Ray Scott Percival and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious zeal, suicide terrorism, passionate commitment to ideologies, and the results of various psychological tests are often cited to show that humans are fundamentally irrational. The author examines all such supposed examples of irrationality and argues that they are compatible with rationality. Rationality does not mean absence of error, but the possibility of correcting error in the light of criticism. In this sense, all human beliefs are rational: they are all vulnerable to being abandoned when shown to be faulty.


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