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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155525003321

Autore

Vernes Jean-Rene

Titolo

The existence of the external world : the Pascal-Hume principle / / Jean-Rene Vernes ; [translation, Mary Baker]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ottawa, : University of Ottawa Press, c2000

ISBN

0-7766-1711-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (120 p.)

Collana

Collection Philosophica ; ; No. 54

Altri autori (Persone)

BakerMary

Disciplina

121

Soggetti

Knowledge, Theory of

Matter

Reason

Probabilities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of: L'existence du monde exterieur et l'erreur du rationalisme.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: THE CARTESIAN REVOLUTION; CHAPTER TWO: THE COPERNICAN REVOLUTION IN PHILOSOPHY; CHAPTER THREE: THE FOUNDATIONS OF PROBABILITY THEORY; CHAPTER FOUR: THE NATURE OF EXPLANATION; CHAPTER FIVE: THE EXISTENCE OF THE EXTERNAL WORLD; CHAPTER SIX: THE PRINCIPLE OF SUFFICIENT REASON; CHAPTER SEVEN: THE SECOND REVOLUTION IN METAPHYSICS; CHAPTER EIGHT: THE EXISTENCE OF MATTER; CONCLUSION; INDEX OF NAMES

Sommario/riassunto

Do the objects that we perceive though our senses exist autonomously, independent of the mind that perceives them? Three and a half centuries have gone by without a universally acceptable solution. Jean-ReneĢ Vernes shows that this failure results from the fundamental error in classical thinking, which identifies reason with determinant reason alone