
Rationality and the Literate Mind
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Preface
Chapter 1 Rationality, the mind and scriptism
Chapter 2 The primitive mind revisited
Chapter 3 Logicality and prelogicality
Chapter 4 Reason and primitive languages
Chapter 5 The great divide
Chapter 6 Aristotle's language myth
Chapter 7 Logic and the tyranny of the alphabet
Chapter 8 Literacy and numeracy
Chapter 9 Interlude: constructing a language-game
Chapter 10 The literate revolution and its consequences
Chapter 11 The fallout from literacy
Chapter 12 Epilogue: rethinking rationality
Bibliography
Index
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