Racjonalność jako źródło niepewności. O konsekwencjach uznania myślenia magicznego za „anormalne”

• Authors: Aleksandra Niemyjska
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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Rationality as a Source of Uncertainty. On Consequences of Taking Magical Thinking as “Abnormal”Rational thinking is limiting the scope of causal reasoning to physical reality. Magical thinking allows for the existence of causal relationships between objects of empirical experience and phenomena which cannot be known in an empirical way. In some primitive cultures as well as in childhood, rational and magical thinking coexist. One of the consequences of the currently dominant scientifi c paradigm and of the secularization of culture is that rationality is valued way higher and that magical thinking is treated as an anomaly. In the article, research results are presented that show that in eff ect, in situations of great importance, if no clear explanation can be off ered, we may experience emotional and cognitive uncertainty.

Keywords

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• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Rocznik Kognitywistyczny
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 4

Dates

published

2010

online

2010-07-03

Contributors

author

Aleksandra Niemyjska