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How to think about weird things : critical thinking for a new age / Theodore Schick Jr., Lewis Vaughn ; foreword by Martin Gardner.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Mountain View, Calif. : Mayfield Pub. Co., c1995.Description: xvi, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1559342544
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 130 22 SCH
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Table of Contents/

Chapter One Introduction: Close Encounters with the Strange
THE IMPORTANCE OF WHY
BEYOND WEIRD TO THE ABSURD
A WEIRDNESS SAMPLER

Chapter Two the Possibility of the Impossible
PARADIGMS AND THE PARANORMAL
LOGICAL POSSIBILITY VERSUS PHYSICAL IMPOSSIBILITY
THE POSSIBILITY OF ESP
THEORIES AND THINGS
ON KNOWING THE FUTURE.

Chapter Three Arguments Good, Bad, and Weird
SEEMING AND BEING
PERCEIVING TRUE OR FALSE
REMEMBERING DO WE REVISE THE PAST
JUDGING: THE HABIT OF UNWARRANTED ASSUMPTIONS.
THE LIMITS OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

Chapter Four Relativism, Truth, and reality
''TRUTHS IS RELATIVE TO INDIVIDUALS ''
'TRUTH IS RELATIVE TO SOCIETIES''
''TRUTH IS RELATIVE TO CONCEPTUAL SCHEMES''
THE RELATIVIST'S RETARD
FACING REALITY
Etc.

Chapter Five Knowledge, belief and evidence
BABLONIAN KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION TECHNIQUES
PROPOSITIONAL KNOW
REASONS AND EVIDENCE
EXPERT OPINION
COHERENCE AND JUSTIFICATION
SOURCES OF KNOWLEDGE

Chapter Six Mystical Knowing
TRUE MYSTIC MOMENTS
SPEAKING ABOUT THE UNSPEAKABLE
THE CAUSES OF THE MYSTICAL

Chapter Seven How to assess a miracle Cure
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
THE DOCTOR'S EVIDENCE
THE APPEAL TO TRADITION
THE REASONS OF SCIENCE

Chapter Eight Science and its pretenders
SCIENCE AND DOGMA
SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGY
CONFIRMING AND CONFUTING HYPOTHESES
CRITERIA OF ADEQUACY
CREATIONISM, EVOLUTION, AND CRITERIA OF ADEQUACY
Etc.

Chapter Nine Case Studies in the Extraordinary
THE SEARCH FORMULA
DOWSING
UFO ABDUCTION CHANNELS
NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE





















Includes Index p. 294-299

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