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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820983903321

Autore

Bronowski Jacob <1908-1974.>

Titolo

The origins of knowledge and imagination / / Jacob Bronowski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven ; ; London, : Yale University Press, 1978

ISBN

1-283-95025-1

0-300-15718-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 pages)

Collana

Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman memorial lectures (Yale University)

Disciplina

121

Soggetti

Knowledge, Theory of

Imagination

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Foreword; 1. The Mind as an Instrument for Understanding; 2. The Evolution and Power of Symbolic Language; 3. Knowledge as Algorithm and as Metaphor; 4. The Laws of Nature and the Nature of Laws; 5. Error, Progress, and the Concept of Time; 6. Law and Individual Responsibility; Index