Cryptid Communication: Media Messages and Public Beliefs About Cryptozoology
International Journal of Communication, 2023 Popular documentary television programs and news outlets have prominently featured messages about cryptids, or creatures whose existence mainstream science has not confirmed.
Wyatt Dawson, Paul R. Brewer, Liam Cuddy
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Miraculous springs in Rome, between popular belief, religion and science
Acque Sotterranee, 2018 Not ...
Marco Pantaloni
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Solving the Current Generality Problem [PDF]
, 2016 Many current popular views in epistemology require a belief to be the result of a reliable process (aka ‘method of belief formation’ or ‘cognitive capacity’) in order to count as knowledge. This means that the generality problem rears its head, i.e.
Wallbridge, Kevin
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Another Blow to Knowledge from Knowledge [PDF]
, 2013 A novel argument is offered against the following popular condition on inferential knowledge: a person inferentially knows a conclusion only if they know each of the claims from which they essentially inferred that conclusion.
Murphy, Peter
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Objects, Words, and Religion: Popular Belief and Protestantism in Early Modern England
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2017 This article deals with selected aspects of popular belief in post-Reformation England as compared to the pre-Reformation popular tradition of the fourteenth and fifteenth century.
Ludwikowska Joanna
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Risonanze vichiane nel Saggio sopra gli errori popolari degli antichi di Leopardi. Linee di ricerca sulla credenza. [PDF]
Laboratorio dell'ISPF, 2018 [Vichian resonances in Leopardi’s Essay on the popular errors of the ancient people]. This paper aims to show the influence of Vico’s thought in Leopardi’sEssay on the popular errors of the ancient people.
Rossella GAGLIONE
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Body Signs: Is Tattoo a Popular Culture Product? / Beden İşaretleri: Dövme Popüler Bir Kültür Ürünü müdür? [PDF]
Folklor/Edebiyat, 2022 This research discusses whether tattoos are a product of popular culture by analyzing the underlying reasons for getting a tattoo and the psychosocial effects of tattoo use.
Mehmet Şükrü Nar
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Pagans and Satan and Goths, Oh My: Dark Leisure as Communicative Agency and Communal Identity on the Fringes of the Modern Goth Scene [PDF]
, 2012 Goth music's cultural terrain has been extensively mapped in the first decade of this century. Through a dark leisure framework, the present article examines the way in which parts of the Goth scene embraced paganism and, latterly, Satanism, as actual ...
Spracklen, B, Spracklen, K
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magical and secular thinking: reflections on brazilian political culture and popular religions
Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2016 In a reflection of essayistic character, the article examines the interfaces between religious and political fields in Brazil, seeking to identify possible connections between certain belief systems and Brazilian political culture.
Rodrigo Leistner
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The Usefulness of Corruptible Elections [PDF]
, 2003 The belief that elections reduce rent seeking by government officials is widely held, likewise the belief that rent seeking decreases as elections are less subject to corruption.
Brandt, Loren, Turner, Matthew
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