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materialism and all that

Ray Scanlon rscanlon at wsg.net
Fri Apr 9 19:08:01 EST 1999


Nuno Borges wrote in message <370DEBE0.D25AAD20 at altavista.net>...
> the term soul is not a mere euphemism. Is the imposition of the vision of
the
>science. Soul is conotated with a teological view of the world and the idea
of
>salvation. Is a rupture with the cartesian view.
>
I agree. I said that "mind" is a euphemism for soul.It appeared in the first
half of the last century for use by people who had difficulty in pronouncing
the word "soul" in mixed company.

Ray
Those interested in how the brain works might look at
www.wsg.net/~rscanlon/brain.html






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