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Epistemetrics /

Within scientific information there is the discipline of scientometrics. Science, however, does not have a monopoly on knowledge. While scientometrics is a centerpiece of epistemetrics, it is not the whole of it. Rescher's endeavor to quantify knowledge illustrates the limits that confront our...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rescher, Nicholas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Asking for more than truth : Duhem's law of cognitive complementarity
  • Kant's conception of knowledge as systematized information
  • Spencer's law of cognitive development
  • Gibbon's law of logarithmic returns
  • Adams's thesis on exponential growth
  • Quality retardation
  • How much can be known? : a Leibnizian perspective on the quantitative discrepancy between linguistic truth and objective fact
  • On the limits of knowledge : a Kantian perspective on cognitive finitude.