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Autore: |
Vernes Jean-Rene
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Titolo: |
The existence of the external world : the Pascal-Hume principle / / Jean-Rene Vernes ; [translation, Mary Baker]
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Pubblicazione: | Ottawa, : University of Ottawa Press, c2000 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (120 p.) |
Disciplina: | 121 |
Soggetto topico: | Knowledge, Theory of |
Matter | |
Reason | |
Probabilities | |
Altri autori: |
BakerMary
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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-René Vernes shows that this failure results from the fundamental error in classical thinking, which identifies reason with determinant reason alone |
Altri titoli varianti: | Pascal-Hume principle |
Titolo autorizzato: | The existence of the external world ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-7766-1711-7 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910155525003321 |
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