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Analogical Investigations

Autor G E R Lloyd
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 sep 2015
Western philosophy and science are responsible for constructing some powerful tools of investigation, aiming at discovering the truth, delivering robust explanations, verifying conjectures, showing that inferences are sound and demonstrating results conclusively. By contrast reasoning that depends on analogies has often been viewed with suspicion. Professor Lloyd first explores the origins of those Western ideals, criticises some of their excesses and redresses the balance in favour of looser, admittedly non-demonstrative analogical reasoning. For this he takes examples both from ancient Greek and Chinese thought and from the materials of recent ethnography to show how different ancient and modern cultures have developed different styles of reasoning. He also develops two original but controversial ideas, that of semantic stretch (to cast doubt on the literal/metaphorical dichotomy) and the multidimensionality of reality (to bypass the realism versus relativism and nature versus nurture controversies).
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781107518377
ISBN-10: 1107518377
Pagini: 144
Ilustrații: 10 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 230 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Introduction; 1. On the very possibility of mutual intelligibility; 2. The multiple valences of comparativism; 3. Analogies, images and models in ethics: some first-order and second-order observations on their use and evaluation in ancient Greece and China; 4. Analogies as heuristic; 5. Ontologies revisited; 6. Conclusions.

Recenzii

'… a challenging book which constitutes an intellectually condensed and pleasurable read.' Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Descriere

Penetrating cross-cultural analysis of alternative models of human reasoning. Uses examples from ancient Greek and Chinese thought and recent ethnography.