Epistemetrics /
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| Author / Creator: | Rescher, Nicholas. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. |
| Description: | xi, 112 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5933049 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Asking for More Than Truth: Duhem's Law of Cognitive Complementarity
- The Security/Definiteness Trade-off and the Contrast Between Science and Common Sense
- Science versus Common Sense
- Further Ramifications
- Knowledge in Perspective
- 2. Kant's Conception of Knowledge as Systematized Information
- Distinguishing Knowledge and Information
- Kant on the Systematicity of Knowledge
- The Hierarchical Textualization of Knowledge
- 3. Spencer's Law of Cognitive Development
- Spencer's Law: The Dynamics of Cognitive Complexity
- How Cognitive Taxonomy Has Grown More Complex
- Evolving Complexity
- A Quantitative Perspective
- 4. Gibbon's Law of Logarithmic Returns
- Kant's Principle of Questions Propagation
- Edward Gibbon and Logarithmic Returns
- Diminishing Returns and Logarithmic Retardation
- Planck's Principle
- 5. Adams's Thesis on Exponential Growth
- Scientific Progress
- Adams's Thesis
- Dimensions of the Phenomenon
- The Linear Growth of Knowledge
- The Lesson
- Bibliographic Appendix
- 6. Quality Retardation
- The Centrality of Importance
- Levels of Cognitive Importance
- Quality Retardation
- Elites
- Cognitive Importance as Reflected in Space Allocation
- Cognitive Importance as Reflected in Citation
- 7. How Much Can Be Known? A Leibnizian Perspective on the Quantitative Discrepancy Between Linguistic Truth and Objective Fact
- How Much Can a Person Know? Leibniz on Language Combinatorics
- The Leibnizian Perspective
- Statements Are Enumerable, As Are Truths
- Truths versus Facts
- The Inexhaustibility of Fact
- Facts Are Transdenumerable
- More Facts Than Truths
- Noninstantiable Properties and Vagrant Predicates
- Musical Chairs Once More
- Coda: Against Cognitive Nominalism
- Appendix. Further Implications
- 8. On the Limits of Knowledge: A Kantian Perspective on Cognitive Finitude
- Limits of Knowledge
- Cognitive Finitude
- Surd Facts and Unknowability
- Larger Lessons: Isaiah's Law
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
