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Presumption and the practices of tentative cognition /
Presumption is a remarkably versatile and pervasively useful resource. Firmly grounded in the law of evidence from its origins in classical antiquity, it made its way in the days of medieval scholasticism into the theory and practice of disputation and debate. Subsequently, it extended its reach to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The legal roots of presumption
- Presumption and burden of proof
- Cognitive presumptions and truth
- Validating cognitive presumptions
- Presumption and inquiry
- Default reasoning
- Presumption and trust
- Presumption and communication
- Presumption in science and beyond
- Specificity prioritization and the primacy of the particular
- Dismissing extremely remote possibilities.