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Unknowability
An Inquiry Into the Limits of Knowledge
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2009
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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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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-3615-7
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3662-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
114
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Chapter 1. Unknowable Facts No access Pages 1 - 10
Chapter 2. Future Knowledge and Its Problems No access Pages 11 - 20
Chapter 3. Problems of Alien Cognition No access Pages 21 - 38
Chapter 4. Against Insolubilia No access Pages 39 - 54
Chapter 5. More Facts Than Truths No access Pages 55 - 64
Chapter 6. On Predicate Vagrancy and Its Epistemic Basis No access Pages 65 - 76
Chapter 7. An Application to Paradoxology: Vagueness No access Pages 77 - 88
Chapter 8. Metaphysical Ramifications No access Pages 89 - 94
Appendix. On the Formal Logic of Unknowability No access Pages 95 - 102
