Presumption and the practices of tentative cognition / Nicholas Rescher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rescher, Nicholas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hypothesis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 181 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Presumption & the Practices of Tentative Cognition

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Presumption is a remarkably versatile and pervasively useful resource. Firmly grounded in the law of evidence from its origins in classical antiquity, it made its way in the days of medieval scholasticism into the theory and practice of disputation and debate. Subsequently, it extended its reach to play an increasingly significant role in the philosophical theory of knowledge. It has thus come to represent a region where lawyers, debaters, and philosophers can all find some common around. In Presumption and the Practices of Tentative Cognition, Nicholas Rescher endeavors to show that the process of presumption plays a role of virtually indispensable utility in matters of rational inquiry and communication. The origins of presumption may lie in law, but its importance is reinforced by its service to the theory of information management and philosophy.

Contents:

The legal roots of presumption

Presumption and burden of proof

Cognitive presumptions and truth

Validating cognitive presumptions

Presumption and inquiry

Default reasoning

Presumption and trust

Presumption and communication

Presumption in science and beyond

Specificity prioritization and the primacy of the particular

Dismissing extremely remote possibilities.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-178) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-107-16959-3

1-280-54142-3

0-511-22590-3

0-511-22462-1

0-511-22647-0

0-511-31728-X

0-511-49884-5

0-511-22529-6

OCLC:

171139509