The Limits of Influence: Psychokinesis and the Philosophy Of Science
@article{Grim1989TheLO, title={The Limits of Influence: Psychokinesis and the Philosophy Of Science}, author={P. Grim and S. Braude}, journal={No{\^u}s}, year={1989}, volume={23}, pages={126} }
Levitations, materializations, healings, earthquake-like rocking. The evidence of large scale spontaneous psychokinesis through history is a neglected and unjustly maligned aspect of the science of parapsychology. In "The Limits of Influence" Stephen E. Braude argues that the familiar card-guessing experiments and statistical proofs' of PSI will never elicit important or revealing facts about the phenomena. Instead he turns our attention to the substantial (if sometimes bizarre) qualitative… CONTINUE READING
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