03095nam 2200661 450 991082024600332120200520144314.00-8131-3284-30-8131-6172-X(CKB)3710000000334360(EBL)1915560(SSID)ssj0001401706(PQKBManifestationID)12511198(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001401706(PQKBWorkID)11357246(PQKB)10686045(OCoLC)556874622(MdBmJHUP)muse44587(Au-PeEL)EBL1915560(CaPaEBR)ebr11007291(CaONFJC)MIL691287(OCoLC)900344626(MiAaPQ)EBC1915560(EXLCZ)99371000000033436020150126h19901990 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCriteria of certainty truth and judgment in the english enlightenment /Kevin L. CopeLexington, Kentucky :The University Press of Kentucky,1990.©19901 online resource (233 p.)Includes index.1-322-60005-8 0-8131-1750-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-218) and index.Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; PART l. RESTORATION OF CERTAINTY; 1. Rochester: Confrontational Systems; 2. Halifax: Deviational Systems; 3. Dryden: Incomprehensible Systems; PART II. CONFRONTATION WITH CERTAINTY; 4. Locke: Analogies of Conflict; 5. Swift: Residual Conflicts and Casual Systems; 6. Pope: Confronted Systems; 7. Smith: Systematic Reclamation of the Self; Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; ZBritish writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century initiated a critique of human knowledge unrivaled in both its scope and its enthusiasm. Author Kevin L. Cope now attempts to provide a coherent, evocative account of explanatory rhetoric in early modern Britain.Critics and historians, Cope argues, have done an admirable job of describing the details of the intellectual movements of this period but they have failed to examine the intellectual, social, and psychological implications of explanation itself. Criteria of Certainty makes up for this shortcoming by treating explanation as a coEnglish literature18th centuryHistory and criticismPhilosophy, English18th centuryPhilosophy in literatureEnlightenmentEnglandGreat BritainIntellectual life18th centuryEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Philosophy, EnglishPhilosophy in literature.Enlightenment820.9/005Cope Kevin L.545877MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820246003321Criteria of certainty887111UNINA