Knowledge and justification /

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Author / Creator:Pollock, John L., author.
Imprint:Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1974.
©1974
Description:1 online resource (362 pages)
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library
Princeton legacy library.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11241819
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ISBN:9781400870738
1400870739
9780691618272
9780691072036
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 24, 2015).
Summary:One of the most firmly entrenched beliefs of contemporary philosophy is that the only way to analyze a concept is to state its truth conditions. In epistemology this has led to the search for reductive analyses, to phenomenalism, behaviorism, and their analogues in other areas of knowledge. Arguing that these attempts at reductive analysis have invariably failed, John L. Pollock defends an alternative theory of conceptual analysis in this book. The author suggests that concepts should be analyzed in terms of their justification conditions rather than their truth conditions. After laying a th.
Other form:Print version: Pollock, John L. Knowledge and justification. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, ©1974 xii, 348 pages Princeton legacy library. 9780691618272