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UNINA9910964507503321 |
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Autore |
Rescher Nicholas |
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Titolo |
On certainty and other philosophical essays on cognition / / Nicholas Rescher |
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Frankfurt ; ; New Brunswick, : Ontos Verlag, 2011 |
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3-86838-105-8 |
3-11-031977-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (107 p.) |
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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 bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1: On Certainty -- Chapter 2: Practical Inference in Theoretical Contexts -- Chapter 3: On the Complications of Epistemic Quality -- Chapter 4: Persuasion -- Chapter 5: Apory -- Chapter 6: Cognitive Obligation -- Chapter 7: Semantical Approximation -- Chapter 8: Cognitive Reflexivity and the Limits of Knowledge -- Chapter 9: Issues of Ultimate Explanation -- REFERENCES -- Name Index -- Backmatter |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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On Certainty continues Rescher's longstanding practice of publishing occasional studies that form part of a wider program of investigation of the scope and limits of rational inquiry in the pursuit of understanding. And pragmatism forms a subtextual Leitmotiv of these essays, seeing that the linking idea at work throughout is that knowledge is a tool for the management of our theoretical and practical affairs, and that what we ask of it is serviceability for the uses we have in view. |
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