Reality and its appearance / / Nicholas Rescher
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| Autore: |
Rescher Nicholas
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| Titolo: |
Reality and its appearance / / Nicholas Rescher
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (140 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 111 |
| Soggetto topico: | Reality |
| Realism | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Reality vs. Appearance; Chapter 2: How True Thought "Agrees" with Reality; Chapter 3: Cognitive Access to Reality; Chapter 4: Problems of Fallibilism; Chapter 5: Scientific Realism; Chapter 6: The Rationale of Realism; Notes; References; Name Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This is an highly original philosophical study of the relationship between what reality is and what we think it to be. In ""Reality and Its Appearance"", Nicholas Rescher aims to address the conceptual and analytical question: how does the concept of reality function and how should we think with regard to the issue of reality's relations to appearances? Rescher argues that the distinction between reality and its appearance is not a substantive distinction between two types of being, but rather relates to different ways of understanding one selfsame mode of being. The book proposes that while r |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Reality and its appearance |
| ISBN: | 1-282-59073-1 |
| 9786612590733 | |
| 1-4411-6485-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818660103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Continuum Studies in American Philosophy