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Does Language Shape Thought? The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language By John H. McWhorter (Oxford, 208 pages, $19.95) Reviewed by John Derbyshire Chinese has an...
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Chasing Down the Ghost in the Machine Losing consciousness in Arizona. by JOHN DERBYSHIRE Writing The Principles of Mathematics in the spring of 1901, Bertrand Russell got stuck on a simple...
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Don't Worry, Be Happy What Should We Be Worried About?: Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night Edited by John Brockman (Harper Perennial, 500 pages, $15.99) by John Derbyshire Fifty-five...
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Occasionalism Isn't Science By John Derbyshire Why can't the purveyors of intelligent design get a break? They have been plowing their lonely furrow for 20 years now, insisting on their right to a...
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Books In Review Is Anybody There? Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars by Lee Billings (Penguin, 304 pages, $27.95) Reviewed by John Derbyshire In the Principles...
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Field of Dreams Gettysburg: The Last Invasion By Allen C. Guelzo (Alfred A. Knopf, 634 pages, $35) By John Derbyshire To write a book about the Battle of Gettysburg is as audacious an...
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BOOKS IN REVIEW The Vast and the Tiny The Milky Way: An Insider’s Guide by William H. Waller (Princeton University Press, 296 pages, $29.95) A Palette of Particles by Jeremy...
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The Church of Somewhere Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England by Roger Scruton (Atlantic Books, 224 pages, $32.95) Reviewed by John Derbyshire When I mention religion, I mean...
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Heavens to Betsy! A severe empiricist reveals his deepest longings. By John Derbyshire Seeing that the first sentence in the first paragraph of the first chapter of Peter Kreeft's book Heaven:...
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Dealey, Sam
Does Language Shape Thought?
(September 2015)
