Aporetics : Rational Deliberation in the Face of Inconsistency.
by
Rescher, Nicholas.
Title
:
Aporetics : Rational Deliberation in the Face of Inconsistency.
Author
:
Rescher, Nicholas.
ISBN
:
9780822973683
Personal Author
:
Rescher, Nicholas.
Physical Description
:
1 online resource (174 pages)
Contents
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Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Nature of Apories -- Chapter 2. Coherentism: An Aporetic Approach to Empirical Inquiry -- Chapter 3. Counterfactual Conditionals -- Chapter 4. Variant Analyses of Counterfactuals and Problems of Probability -- Chapter 5. The Aporetics of Counterfactual History -- Chapter 6. Paradoxes -- Chapter 7. Philosophical Aporetics -- Chapter 8. The Dialectics of Philosophical Development -- Chapter 9. The Rationale of Aporetic Variation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Names.
Abstract
:
Rescher defines an apory as a group of individually plausible but collectively incompatible theses. Citing thinkers from the pre-Socratics through Spinoza, Hegel, and Nicolai Hartmann, he builds a framework for coping with the complexities of divergent theses, and shows in detail how aporetic analysis can be applied to a variety of fields including philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, logic, and intellectual history.
Local Note
:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Subject Term
:
Aporia.
Inconsistency.
Philosophy.
Genre
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Electronic books.
Electronic Access
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| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number |
|---|
| IYTE Library | E-Book | 1284472-1001 | B187 |