Paranoia and Reinforced Dogmatism: Beyond Critical Rationality

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 339-350

  Rudnick, Abraham ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Context of introduction; Paranoia; Reinforced dogmatism; Relevance; Testability

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342463638     PISSN: 00483931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0048393103252781     Document Type: Review

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