Knowledge and Conditionals — Scriptorium Liberum

Basic Knowledge and Conditions on Knowle

📁 Basic Knowledge and Conditions on Knowledge

✍ Mark McBride 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Open Book Publishers 🌐 English

How do we know what we know? In this stimulating and rigorous book, Mark McBride explores two sets of issues in contemporary epistemology: the problems that warrant transmission poses for the category of basic knowledge; and the status of conclusive reasons, sensitivity, and safety as conditions tha

Conditionals and Prediction: Time, Knowl

📁 Conditionals and Prediction: Time, Knowledge and Causation in Conditional Constructions

✍ Barbara Dancygier 📂 Library 📅 1999 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

This book offers a new and in-depth analysis of English conditional sentences. Dancygier classifies conditional constructions according to time-reference and modality. She shows how the basic meaning parameters of conditionality correlate to formal parameters of the linguistic constructions that are

📁 conditions of knowledge

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Context, Cognition and Conditionals

📁 Context, Cognition and Conditionals

✍ Chi-Hé Elder 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 Springer International Publishing; Palgrave Macmil 🌐 English

<p><p>This book proposes a semantic theory of conditionals that can account for (i) the variability in usages that conditional sentences can be put; and (ii) both conditional sentences of the form ‘if p, q’ and those conditional thoughts that are expressed without using ‘if’. It presents theoretical

Knowledge and Conditionals: Essays on th

📁 Knowledge and Conditionals: Essays on the Structure of Inquiry

✍ Robert C Stalnaker 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

Robert C. Stalnaker presents a set of essays on the structure of inquiry. In the first part he focuses on the concepts of knowledge, belief, and partial belief, and on the rules and procedures we use - or ought to use - to determine what to believe, and what to claim that we know. In the second part

Postmodern Condition The Postmodern Cond

📁 Postmodern Condition The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

✍ Jean-Francois Lyotard 📂 Library 📅 1984 🏛 University of Minnesota Press 🌐 English

The "Post-modern condition" is "incredulity toward meta-narratives" that arises from everyone's supposed disappointment that Marxism or even Democracy will produce a better society. These ideologies have disappointed because culture is constituted in some unexplained way by knowledge. Lyotard does