Definition of
superstition
According to John O West in his definition of superstition, superstition
means faith in something which is
illogical, something that has no scientific truthadding that it carries the
sense of what some other fool believes. John stated that folklorists going out to collect beiefs
have learned that the term
« superstition » has a negative connotation , while people on
many cultural or educational levels admit to holding a variety of believes as
natutal consequences of faith.
In another definition of Dale
Martin ,
superstitions are beliefs or practices that presuppose a faulty
understanding about cause and effect usually by assuming notions of causality
that have been rejected by modern science
but may represent a long standing
popular beliefs. So people for centuries have believed that certain numbers are
lucky and others lucky.. modern science has uniformly rejected beliefs underpinning
« lucky » and « unlucky » numbers but we still have
buildings and elevators with no thirteenth floor which
is considered to be as
an unlucky number. For modern persons who may describe themselves as
superstitious the term usually indicates their recognition that they are
accepting certain beliefs that are admittedly rejected or marginalized by
scientific culture they may say ‘ oh ! i am a bit superstitious’ but by
putting in that way, they show that they know such things are ridiculed by one
dominant powerful discourse of modern world science.
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