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The Outer Limits of Reason - What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us (Paperback) Loot Price: R591
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The Outer Limits of Reason - What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us (Paperback): Noson S. Yanofsky

The Outer Limits of Reason - What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us (Paperback)

Noson S. Yanofsky

Series: The Mit Press

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An exploration of the scientific limits of knowledge that challenges our deep-seated beliefs about our universe, our rationality, and ourselves. Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science, mathematics, and reason have revealed to us, this work studies what science, mathematics, and reason tell us cannot be revealed. In The Outer Limits of Reason, Noson Yanofsky considers what cannot be predicted, described, or known, and what will never be understood. He discusses the limitations of computers, physics, logic, and our own thought processes. Yanofsky describes simple tasks that would take computers trillions of centuries to complete and other problems that computers can never solve; perfectly formed English sentences that make no sense; different levels of infinity; the bizarre world of the quantum; the relevance of relativity theory; the causes of chaos theory; math problems that cannot be solved by normal means; and statements that are true but cannot be proven. He explains the limitations of our intuitions about the world-our ideas about space, time, and motion, and the complex relationship between the knower and the known. Moving from the concrete to the abstract, from problems of everyday language to straightforward philosophical questions to the formalities of physics and mathematics, Yanofsky demonstrates a myriad of unsolvable problems and paradoxes. Exploring the various limitations of our knowledge, he shows that many of these limitations have a similar pattern and that by investigating these patterns, we can better understand the structure and limitations of reason itself. Yanofsky even attempts to look beyond the borders of reason to see what, if anything, is out there.

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Imprint: MIT Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: The Mit Press
Release date: November 2016
First published: 2013
Authors: Noson S. Yanofsky (Professor)
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52984-6
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
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LSN: 0-262-52984-X
Barcode: 9780262529846

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