How do we know what we "know"? How did we βas individuals and as a society β come to accept certain knowledge as fact? In Human Knowledge, Bertrand Russell questions the reliability of our assumptions on knowledge. This brilliant and controversial work investigates the relationship between βindividu
Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (Routledge Classics)
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 480
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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How do we know what we "know"? How did we βas individuals and as a society β come to accept certain knowledge as fact? In Human Knowledge, Bertrand Russell questions the reliability of our assumptions on knowledge. This brilliant and controversial work investigates the relationship between βindividualβ and βscientificβ knowledge. First published in 1948, this provocative work contributed significantly to an explosive intellectual discourse that continues to this day.
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