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Unknowability : an inquiry into the limits of knowledge /

The realities of mankind's cognitive situation are such that our knowledge of the world's ways is bound to be imperfect. None the less, the theory of unknowability--agnoseology as some have called it--is a rather underdeveloped branch of philosophy. In this philosophically rich and groundb...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rescher, Nicholas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2009.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Unknowable facts
  • Future knowledge and its problems
  • Problems of alien cognition
  • Against insolubilia
  • More facts than truths
  • On predicate vagrancy and its epistemic basis
  • An application to paradoxology : vagueness
  • Metaphysical ramifications
  • Appendix: On the formal logic of unknowability.