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1 online resource (196 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-186) and index. |
| Summary |
Ludwig Wittgenstein's On Certainty was finished just before his death in 1951 and is a running commentary on three of G.E. Moore's greatest epistemological papers. In the early 1930s, Moore had written a lengthy commentary on Wittgenstein, anticipating some of the issues Wittgenstein would discuss in On Certainty. The philosophical relationship between these two great philosophers and their overlapping, but nevertheless differing, views is the subject of this book. Both defended the existence of certainty and thus opposed any form of scepticism. However, their defences and conceptions of certainty differed widely, as did their understanding of the nature of scepticism and how best to combat it. Stroll's book contains a careful and critical analysis of their differing approaches to a set of fundamental epistemological problems. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Moore, G. E. (George Edward), 1873-1958.
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Moore, G. E. (George Edward), 1873-1958. |
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. Über Gewissheit.
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. |
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Moore, G. E., 1873-1958 Moore, George Edward. |
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. |
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Über Gewissheit (Wittgenstein, Ludwig) |
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Certainty.
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Certainty. |
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Skepticism.
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Skepticism. |
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Probability |
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Epistemology |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stroll, Avrum, 1921- Moore and Wittgenstein on certainty. New York : Oxford University Press, 1994 0195084888 (DLC) 93022633 (OCoLC)28148365 |
| ISBN |
9780195359138 (electronic book) |
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0195359135 (electronic book) |
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1280527005 |
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9781280527005 |
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0195084888 (Cloth) |
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9780195084887 |
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