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Facts, Words and Beliefs (Hardcover)
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Facts, Words and Beliefs (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1970, Facts, Words and Beliefs is concerned
primarily with formulating the following question and suggesting
the right way of answering it- how can a few stray images or
muttered words running through our mind constitute our envisagement
of situation perhaps remote in time and place from our present
position? From a practical point of view the moments when we
envisage the nature of some situation which we believe to exist may
not be of any great importance. It would seem that our belief in
the existence of such situations lies in some sort of adjustment of
our behaviour to them which will be useful if the situations really
exist, from the point of view of survival and comfort. The author
suggests that these moments of conscious envisagement of such
absent situations may be rather a sign of such successful
adjustment than a factor in bringing it about, hence of no
practical value in themselves. However, if knowledge has any sort
of intrinsic value, it must surely lie in those moments when one
does consciously envisage some aspects of the world more or less as
it really is, and to try to understand the nature of these moments
is to try to understand all that is of intrinsic value in
knowledge. This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of
philosophy.
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