| Description |
1 online resource (330 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Knowledge and necessity. The concept of knowledge ; A priori and a posteriori knowledge ; A note on the essence of natural kinds ; On the necessity of origin ; Modal reality -- Thought and world. The structure of content ; Conceptual causation: some elementary reflections ; Charity, interpretation, and belief ; Radical interpretation and epistemology ; The mechanism of reference -- Reality and appearance. Truth and use ; An a priori argument for realism ; Two notions of realism? ; Realist semantics and content-ascription ; Another look at colour ; The appearance of colour. |
| Summary |
Knowledge and Reality brings together a selection of Colin McGinn's philosophical essays from the 1970s to the 1990s, taking as its theme the relationship between the mind and the world. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Knowledge, Theory of.
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Knowledge, Theory of. |
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Realism.
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Realism. |
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Reality.
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Reality. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McGinn, Colin, 1950- Knowledge and reality. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 0198238231 9780198238232 (DLC) 98049342 (OCoLC)40251672 |
| ISBN |
9780191519376 (electronic book) |
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0191519375 (electronic book) |
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0199251584 |
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9780199251582 |
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9780198238232 |
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0198238231 (alkaline paper) |
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