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Stephen King, JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, JK Rowling, Clive Barker – have we all been “had” by their work because of a reliance on the non-logical supernatural?
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This combination of non-logical drivers with some reason-based ones has been evolutionarily proven to be superior to that of all other living things - yet has anyone shown that logic leads to greater survival rates?
Our Paradoxical Attitudes Toward Privacy - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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This is a non-logical association, unworthy of an intelligent people.
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This non-logical but emotional behaviour shows to me that these so called "supporters" do not know, or better, are not interested in the future policy of the USA, I really do hope that they come back to reality.
Feinstein: Obama-Clinton meeting was meant to be a secret 2008
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Intervention design and implementation that uses logical and non-logical strategies
Holger Nauheimer - 7 Dimensions: Principal Skills of Change Facilitators William Harryman 2009
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Identification of logical and non-logical aspects of group and organization behaviour.
Holger Nauheimer - 7 Dimensions: Principal Skills of Change Facilitators William Harryman 2009
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The saddest part of all this, for me, is that if at all the polls are anywhere close to reality, it means that a great number of people actually buy into this method of non-logical logic.
McCain On Maliki's Endorsement Of Obama's Pullout Timeline: He Didn't Mean It 2009
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Their intellectual ancestor, Hume, had already given two definitions of “true”, one for logical truths, broadly conceived, the other for non-logical truths: “Truth or falsehood consists in an agreement or disagreement either to the real relations of ideas, or to real existence and matter of fact” (Hume Treatise, 3.1.1).
The Correspondence Theory of Truth David, Marian 2009
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It is the area where, of all the non-logical statements that might be true, the one that happens to be true is, "Not (A and Not A)".
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART THREE Hal Duncan 2007
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Examples for non-logical thinking traditions e.g. occidental: dialectics, Gestalt-Theory and oriental: Yin-Yang thinking
Holger Nauheimer - 7 Dimensions: Principal Skills of Change Facilitators William Harryman 2009
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