Ignorance: On the Wider Implications of Deficient Knowledge
โ Scribed by Nicholas Rescher
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 188
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Table of Contents
The reach of ignorance --
Questions and insolubilia --
Cognitive shortfall --
Cognitive finitude --
On limits to science --
Obstacles to predictive foreknowledge --
Can computers mend matters? --
Implications of ignorance.
โฆ Subjects
Ignorance Theory of knowledge Knowledge Cognition Erkenntnistheorie Unwissenheit Wissenserwerb Kognition PHILOSOPHY Epistemology General
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