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Ignorance : on the wider implications of deficient knowledge / Nicholas Rescher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rescher, Nicholas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ignorance (Theory of knowledge).
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Cognition.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 170 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- The reach of ignorance
- Questions and insolubilia
- Cognitive shortfall
- Cognitive finitude
- On limits to science
- Obstacles to predictive foreknowledge
- Can computers mend matters?
- Implications of ignorance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-167) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822960140
- 0822960141
- OCLC:
- 289067832
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