Studies in Cognitive Finitude
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Nicholas Rescher
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Studies in Cognitive Finitude
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
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9783110326345
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CHF 97.00
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20. und 21. Jahrhundert
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English
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133
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For over thirty years Professor Rescher has been preoccupied with exploring the scope and limits of human knowledge from an array of different points of view. This book collects together these various threads into a unified treatment of this overall terrain. It argues in detail that while scepticism is about the prospect of factual knowledge about the world is emphatically unwarranted, nevertheless the project of amplifying this knowledge does encounter some specifiable and insuperable limits.
Contents
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PREFACE
8
Chapter 1FINITUDE AND LIMITATIONS(ON UNREALIZABLE ASPIRATIONS)
9
Chapter 2 - ON COGNITIVE FINITUDE:IGNORANCE AND ERROR
24
Chapter 3SCEPTICISM AND FINITUDE
36
Chapter 4LIMITS OF COGNITIONA LEIBNIZIAN PERSPECTIVE ON THEQUANTITATIVE DISCREPANCYBETWEEN LINGUISTIC TRUTHAND OBJECTIVE FACT
46
Chapter 5COGNITIVE PROGRESS AND ITSCOMPLICATIONS
66
Chapter 6AGAINST SCIENTIFIC INSOLUBILIA
73
Chapter 7THE PROBLEM OF UNKNOWABLEFACTS
85
Chapter 8EPISTEMIC INSOLUBILIA ANDCOGNITIVE FINITUDE
96
Chapter 9CAN COMPUTERS OVERCOME OURCOGNITIVE FINITUDE?
112
CONCLUSION
127
NAME INDEX
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