The question ” Are we alone ? ” in different cultures
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A survey of the worldwide litterature reveals that the question ”Are we alone in the Universe ?” has been formulated only in the ”western” litterature. Here I try to understand why it is so. To investigate this problem it is first necessary to clarify what ”western” culture means.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009