Aporetics : Rational Deliberation in the Face of Inconsistency.
The word apory stems from the Greek aporia, meaning impasse or perplexing difficulty. InAporetics, Nicholas Rescher defines an apory as a group of individually plausible but collectively incompatible theses. Rescher examines historic, formulaic, and systematic apories and couples these with aporetic...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Pittsburgh : Chicago :
University of Pittsburgh Press, Chicago Distribution Center [distributor]
Aug. 2009 ;
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Colección: | University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions
University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- The nature of apories
- Coherentism : an aporetic approach to empirical inquiry
- Counterfactual conditionals
- Variant analyses of counterfactuals and problems of probability
- The aporetics of counterfactual history
- Paradoxes
- Philosophical aporetics
- The dialectics of philosophical development
- The rationale of aporetic variation.