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Aporetics : rational deliberation in the face of inconsistency / Nicholas Rescher.
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Ebscohost Ebooks University Press Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rescher, Nicholas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aporia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (174 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2009]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Rescher defines an apory as a group of individually plausible but collectively incompatible theses. Citing thinkers from the pre-Socratics through Spinoza, Hegel, and Nicolai Hartmann, he builds a framework for coping with the complexities of divergent theses, and shows in detail how aporetic analysis can be applied to a variety of fields including philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, logic, and intellectual history.
- Contents:
- The nature of apories
- Coherentism : an aporetic approach to empirical inquiry
- Counterfactual conditionals
- Variant analyses of counterfactuals and problems of probability
- The aporetics of counterfactual history
- Paradoxes
- Philosophical aporetics
- The dialectics of philosophical development
- The rationale of aporetic variation.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-157) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822973683
- 0822973685
- OCLC:
- 810039658
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