Most current work in epistemology deals with the evaluation and justification of information already acquired. In this book, Jaakko Hintikka instead discusses the more important problem of how knowledge is acquired in the first place. His model of information-seeking is the old Socratic method of
Socratic Epistemology: Explorations of Knowledge-Seeking by Questioning
โ Scribed by Jaakko Hintikka
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 249
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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