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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455486703321

Autore

Nathan N. M. L.

Titolo

The price of doubt / / N.M.L. Nathan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2001

ISBN

1-134-56746-4

1-280-33555-6

0-203-46821-X

0-203-24561-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Collana

International library of philosophy

Disciplina

121/.5

Soggetti

Belief and doubt

Consciousness

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-173) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Arguments for ignorance and the negation test; Demonic arguments; Regressive arguments; Evidence-or-acquaintance arguments; Anti-idealism; Arguments against justified belief; From rational action to rational belief; Arguments against rational belief; The affirmation test; Appendix: Semantic objections to demonic arguments; Notes; Works cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"An argument may fail because it is unsound. A trivial conclusion is another fault. Do all the sceptic's arguments have one or both of these deficiencies? This book conjectures that they do. Some sceptical arguments are entirely sound. Some have non-trivial conclusions. But none, it is conjectured, has both of these advantages."