Reality and its appearance / Nicholas Rescher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rescher, Nicholas.

Series:

Continuum Studies in American Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reality.

Realism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (140 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is an highly original philosophical study of the relationship between what reality is and what we think it to be. In ""Reality and Its Appearance"", Nicholas Rescher aims to address the conceptual and analytical question: how does the concept of reality function and how should we think with regard to the issue of reality's relations to appearances? Rescher argues that the distinction between reality and its appearance is not a substantive distinction between two types of being, but rather relates to different ways of understanding one selfsame mode of being. The book proposes that while r

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Reality vs. Appearance; Chapter 2: How True Thought "Agrees" with Reality; Chapter 3: Cognitive Access to Reality; Chapter 4: Problems of Fallibilism; Chapter 5: Scientific Realism; Chapter 6: The Rationale of Realism; Notes; References; Name Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612590733

9781282590731

1282590731

9781441164858

1441164855

OCLC:

601821087