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Exemplars of truth / Keith Lehrer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lehrer, Keith, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 155 pages, 1 leaf of plates)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- The monograph explains how knowledge requires the capacity to justify or defend the target claim of knowledge. Defensibility is based on a background system. Lehrer argues that reflection on experience yields a self-referential exemplar representation.This is the novel contribution of his new book to truth about the perceptual world.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Defensible knowledge and exemplars representation
- Perceptual knowledge of the external world
- Knowledge, autonomy, and exemplars
- Exemplars, truth, and scientific revolution
- Intuition and coherence in the keystone loop
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-088429-0
- 0-19-088430-4
- 0-19-088428-2
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