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| ISBN: | 1417537728
9781417537723
0791458113
9780791458112
0791458121
9780791458129
9780791486375
0791486370
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-401) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Annotation. A comprehensive introduction to the theory of knowledge. Guided by the founding ideas of American pragmatism, Epistemology provides a clear example of the basic concepts involved in knowledge acquisition and explains the principles at work in the development of rational inquiry. It examines how these principles analyze the course of scientific progress and how the development of scientific inquiry inevitably encounters certain natural disasters. At the center of the book's deliberations there lies not only the potential for scientific progress but also the limit of science as well. This comprehensive introduction to the theory of knowledge addresses a myriad of topics, including the critique of skepticism, the nature of rationality, the possibility of science for extraterrestrial intelligences, and the prospect of insoluble issues in science.
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| Other form: | Print version: Rescher, Nicholas. Epistemology. Albany : State University of New York, ©2003 0791458113 0791458121
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