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Paradox /
Paradoxes are more than just intellectual puzzles: they raise substantive philosophical issues. Indeed, an apparently impeccable argument that leads to an apparently outrageous conclusion is a threat to the very trustworthiness of reason. In this introduction to paradox and paradoxes Doris Olin show...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Central problems of philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The nature of paradox
- Paradox and contradiction
- Believing in surprises : the prediction paradox
- The preface paradox, fallibility and probability
- The lottery paradox
- Newcomb's problem
- The prisoner's dilemma
- The sorites paradox.