Truth, Reality, Belief, Faith: Science in Public Debate
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Faith in science.
Faith is the desire to believe in something as true, or, if not absolutely true, then at least dependable. Faith seems to have been promoted through evolutionary trends, and, as such, it is a concoction of deep brain processes. Related to faith is the concept of truth. Truth is an ephemeral mental construct. We each have some idea of the meaning of truth. Most of the time, our ideas of truth re...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pacific Conservation Biology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1038-2097
DOI: 10.1071/pc050001