All Models Are Wrong, and Some Are Religious: Supernatural Explanations as Abstract and Useful False...
All Models Are Wrong, and Some Are Religious: Supernatural Explanations as Abstract and Useful Falsehoods about Complex Realities
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New York: Springer US
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Many cognitive and evolutionary theories of religion argue that supernatural explanations are byproducts of our cognitive adaptations. An influential argument states that our supernatural explanations result from a tendency to generate anthropomorphic explanations, and that this tendency is a byproduct of an error management strategy because agents...
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All Models Are Wrong, and Some Are Religious: Supernatural Explanations as Abstract and Useful Falsehoods about Complex Realities
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2757056067
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2757056067
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1045-6767
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1936-4776
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10.1007/s12110-022-09437-9
