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A modest certainty / Frank D. Schubert.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schubert, Frank D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Certainty.
- Names, Personal.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (395 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Schubert squarely addresses the question of whether there is a single standard of certainty that can be applied to such disparate areas as logic, mathematics, politics, religion, familial/tribal commitments, and science. The result is a new "philosophy in a grand manner" and a powerful ethical proposal for our time.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; 1 Personal Proper Namesas a Certainty Standard; 2 Personal Proper Namesas a Certainty Standard; 3 Religious Certainty; 4 Political Certainty; 5 Familial/Tribal Certainty; 6 Scientific Certainty; 7 Certainty as We Understand It; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed July 8, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 0-7618-8878-0
- 0-7618-5898-9
- OCLC:
- 851316252
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