Confusion : a study in the theory of knowledge /
Everyone has mistaken one thing for another, such as a stranger for an acquaintance. A person who has mistaken two things, Joseph Camp argues, even on a massive scale, is still capable of logical thought. In order to make that idea precise, one needs a logic of confused thought that is blind to the...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2002.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Material Falsity. 1. Thinking One Thing Is Another. 2. A Little History
- II. What Confusion Is. 3. Fred and the Ant Colony. 4. The Semantic Use of Psychological Language
- III. A Little Logic. 5. Ambiguity. 6. Humoring
- IV. Truth-Valuing. 7. Calibration. 8. Failure to Refer. 9. How You Convince People
- Including Yourself
- of the Theory of Descriptions. 10. Trying to Predicate Existence
- V.A Logic for Confusion. 11. Explicating. 12. Good Advice. 13. How Fred Should Think
- VI. Curing Confusion. 14. Semantic Self-Awareness. 15. Two Charleys. 16. Young Newton
- VII. Flexible Sameness. 17. Self-Induced Confusion. 18. The Theory of Ideas. 19. Making Category Mistakes and Loving It.