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Presumption and the practices of tentative cognition / Nicholas Rescher.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rescher, Nicholas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hypothesis.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 181 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Contents:
- The legal roots of presumption
- Presumption and burden of proof
- Cognitive presumptions and truth
- Validating cognitive presumptions
- Presumption and inquiry
- Default reasoning
- Presumption and trust
- Presumption and communication
- Presumption in science and beyond
- Specificity prioritization and the primacy of the particular
- Dismissing extremely remote possibilities.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-178) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521864747
- OCLC:
- 62322134
- Publisher Number:
- 9780521864749
- Online:
- Publisher description
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