Unknowability : an inquiry into the limits of knowledge
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Unknowability : an inquiry into the limits of knowledge
Lexington Books, c2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
収録内容
- Unknowable facts
- Future knowledge and its problems
- Problems of alien cognition
- Against insolubilia
- More facts than truths
- On predicate vagrancy and its epistemic basis
- An application to paradoxology : vagueness
- Metaphysical ramifications
- Appendix: On the formal logic of unknowability
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: cloth ISBN 9780739136157
内容説明
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.
目次
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
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: electronic ISBN 9780739136621
内容説明
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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