Radical realism : direct knowing in science and philosophy /

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Author / Creator:Pols, Edward
Imprint:Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1992.
Description:xi, 221 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1322894
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ISBN:080142710X (cloth)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:In this eloquent and original book, Edward Pols challenges the linguistic consensus that has dominated Anglo-American philosophy in this century. Against the consensus assumption that the only reality question is about the relation between language and the real, he argues that philosophy is about the world and not merely about the propositional structures we use to interpret the world. The heart of his "radical realism" is that the relation between the knower and the real is prior to the relation between language and the real, and that in this prior relation we are capable of knowing directly a reality independent of the human mind.
Physical Description:xi, 221 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:080142710X