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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rescher, Nicholas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh : Chicago : University of Pittsburgh Press, Chicago Distribution Center [distributor] Aug. 2009 ;
Colección:University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions
University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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.