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Paul Thagard on cognition, consciousness, misinformation, balance

Thing in itself

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How Do You Go From Coherence?

The book is all about balanced metaphors and how they can be good or bad. It's based on the idea of coherence, from metaphysical considerations to social sciences. The author tracked more than 50 balance metaphors over a two-year period. He says some are "toxic" because they encourage people not to get vaccinated which can kill their children.

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