The Existence of the External World : The Pascal-Hume Principle / / Jean-Rene Vernes
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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
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| Pubblicazione: | Saint-Nicolas, Quebec : , : Distribution de livres Univers, , 1999 |
| Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2012 | |
| ©1999 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (120 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 121 |
| Soggetto topico: | Rationalism |
| Empiricism | |
| Knowledge, Theory of | |
| Note generali: | Translation of: L'existence du monde extérieur 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Existence of the External World |
| ISBN: | 0-7766-1711-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Francese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910155525003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Collection Philosophica ; ; v. 54.