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UNINA9910787257003321 |
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Autore |
Williamson Timothy |
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Titolo |
Tetralogue : I'm right, you're wrong / / Timothy Williamson |
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New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
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0-19-877717-5 |
0-19-104469-5 |
0-19-104468-7 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (161 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Dogmatism |
Philosophy |
Thought and thinking |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Part I. The perils of peacemaking -- Part II. The terrors of truth -- Part III. The advantages of arrogance -- Part IV. The vices of value. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Four people with radically different outlooks on the world meet on a train and start talking about what they believe. Their conversation varies from cool logical reasoning to heated personal confrontation. Each starts off convinced that he or she is right, but then doubts creep in. In a tradition going back to Plato, Timothy Williamson uses a fictional conversation to explore questions about truth and falsity, and knowledge and belief. Is truth always relative to a point of view? Is every opinion fallible? Such ideas have been used to combat dogmatism and intolerance, but are they compatible w |
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