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Truth : a guide / Simon Blackburn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blackburn, Simon, 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Truth.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (260 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A distinguished philosopher illuminates the age-old war over truth between one side that believes in plain, unvarnished facts and the other side that believes that judgment is clouded with false notions of absolute truth, in an exploration of the long-standing philosophical battle.
- Contents:
- Faith, belief, and reason
- Man the measure
- Ishmael's problem and the delights of keeping quiet
- Nietzsche : the arch debunker
- The possibility of philosophy
- Observation and truth : from Locke to Rorty
- Realism as science; realism about science
- Historians and others.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-234) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-988334-3
- 0-19-531580-4
- 1-280-84085-4
- 9786610840854
- 0-19-803757-0
- 1-4294-6882-3
- OCLC:
- 476025510
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