REGARDING A NEW HUMANISM


	REGARDING A NEW HUMANISM

wildcat

7-11-2007 6:18 AM

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philosophy, humanism, science, salvador pániker, linguistics, mind

wildcat says:

"This convention is responsible—and has been denounced by Buddha and David Hume alike—for committing the fallacy of believing in the mind's existence when the only thing we can be certain of is the existence of mental acts."

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