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Cognitive complications : epistemology in pragmatic perspective /
The prime intent of this work is one of innovation. Nicholas Rescher addresses issues that are under-examined in the present state of discussion, their inherent interest notwithstanding. The linking thread of these investigations is their pragmatic dimension, inherent in the idea that rational inqui...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Factual knowledge in the perspective of pragmatic idealism
- Cognitive defaults
- Inescapable error
- Modes of cognitive appraisal
- Simplicity as a pragmatic conception
- Oversimplification
- The role of technology in natural science
- Creative probability
- Unanswerable questions and unknowable facts
- Indefinite knowledge, unidentifiable items, and paradoxes of vagueness
- Importance
- Cognitive complementarity
- Excellence examined
- Group knowledge
- Physical science from an alien point of view
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the author.