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Unknowability

Autor Nicholas Rescher
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 apr 2009
The realities of mankind's cognitive situation are such that our knowledge of the world's ways is bound to be imperfect. None the less, the theory of unknowability-agnoseology as some have called it-is a rather underdeveloped branch of philosophy. In this philosophically rich and groundbreaking work, Nicholas Rescher aims to remedy this. As the heart of the discussion is an examination of what Rescher identifies as the four prime reasons for the impracticability of cognitive access to certain facts about the world: developmental inpredictability, verificational surdity, ontological detail, and predicative vagrancy. Rescher provides a detailed and illuminating account of the role of each of these factors in limiting human knowledge, giving us an overall picture of the practical and theoretical limits to our capacity to know our world.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780739136157
ISBN-10: 0739136151
Pagini: 124
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Unknowable Facts Chapter 3 Future Knowledge and its Problems Chapter 4 Problems of Alien Cognition Chapter 5 Against Insolubilia Chapter 6 More Facts Than Truths Chapter 7 On Predicate Vagrancy and its Epistemic Basis Chapter 8 An Application to Paradoxology: Vagueness Chapter 9 Metaphysical Ramifications Chapter 10 Apprendix: On the Formal Logic of Unknowability