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Belief and doubt

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  • The risen Christ shows his lance wound to Saint Thomas. Engraving by J. Sturt.
  • Six faces expressing the human passions: (clockwise from top left) scorn, laughter, acute pain, desire, anger, sadness. Coloured etching, c. 1800, after C. Le Brun.
  • Christ shows his stigmata to Saint Thomas. Woodcut.
  • Saint Thomas puts his finger into Christ's wounded side. Lithograph by J.G. Schreiner.
  • A face expressing scorn (left) and a face expressing horror (right). Engraving, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.
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    Paul tells the people of Greece about the last judgement; some mock and others believe. Engraving by C. Bloemaert, 1679, after C. Ferri.

    Ferri, Ciro, 1634-1689. | Date: 1679 | Reference: 24892i
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    From folk psychology to cognitive science : the case against belief / Stephen P. Stich.

    Stich, Stephen P. | Date: [1983], ©1983
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    That I'm tired.

    Olive, Rachel Rowan | Date: [2021] | Reference: 3348573i.11
    Part of: Believing.
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    The risen Christ shows his lance wound to Saint Thomas. Engraving by J. Sturt.

    | Reference: 23343i
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    Why people believe weird things : pseudoscience, superstition, and other confusions of our time / Michael Shermer ; foreword by Stephen Jay Gould.

    Shermer, Michael. | Date: 1997
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