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" Cognitive foundations of natural history : "
Scott Atran.
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BL
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706096
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b528285
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| Main Entry
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Atran, Scott,1952-
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Cognitive foundations of natural history : : towards an anthropology of science /\ Scott Atran.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge [England] ;New York :: Cambridge University Press ;Paris :: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'homme,, 1990.
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xii, 360 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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0521372933
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: 2735102963 (France)
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: 9780521372930
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: 9782735102969 (France)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-339) and index.
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| Contents
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Common Sense: Its Scope and Limits -- Folkbiology -- Folktaxonomy -- In the beginning ... -- A basic level -- Life-forms -- Exceptions that prove the rule -- Family fragments -- The Semantics of Living Kinds -- Domain specificity -- Meaning as a motley -- Nature and necessity -- Phenomenal reality and nomic theory -- Kinds of natural kinds -- Aristotelian Essentials -- Essence and Environment -- Essentialism reconsidered -- "Induction" -- Form and matter -- Materials of Logical Division -- Genos and Eidos -- Division and assembly -- Analogy -- Failure's triumph -- From Herbals to Systems -- Origins of the Species Concept -- Back to nature -- Charting new territory -- Species forever -- Omnia ex ovo -- The Nature of the Genus -- Fruits of reason -- Trial and error -- Art and intuition -- Paradise regained -- The Scientific Breakaway -- The Method of Families and Classes -- Stress and strain -- And the walls came tumbling down -- Piecing together the fragments -- Organization -- End of series -- Science, Symbolism and Common Sense -- Savage savvy -- Cognitive "pathogenesis" -- Speculating -- Plants as animals -- The analogy of nature -- Man dethroned -- Dispositions to susceptibilities -- Rudiments of the Linnaean Hierarchy: Towards an Anthropology of Science -- Milestones of Natural History.
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Cognition and culture.
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Folk classification.
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Natural history-- Classification.
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GN468.4.A87 1990
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