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Unknowability - An Inquiry Into the Limits of Knowledge (Hardcover, New)
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Unknowability - An Inquiry Into the Limits of Knowledge (Hardcover, New)
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The realities of mankind's cognitive situation are such that our
knowledge of the world's ways is bound to be imperfect. None the
less, the theory of unknowability--agnoseology as some have called
it--is a rather underdeveloped branch of philosophy. In this
philosophically rich and groundbreaking work, Nicholas Rescher aims
to remedy this. As the heart of the discussion is an examination of
what Rescher identifies as the four prime reasons for the
impracticability of cognitive access to certain facts about the
world: developmental inpredictability, verificational surdity,
ontological detail, and predicative vagrancy. Rescher provides a
detailed and illuminating account of the role of each of these
factors in limiting human knowledge, giving us an overall picture
of the practical and theoretical limits to our capacity to know our
world.
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