| Description |
1 online resource (362 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Princeton Legacy Library
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Princeton legacy library.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. What Is an Epistemological Problem?; 2. The Structure of Epistemic Justification; 3. Theories of Perceptual Knowledge; 4. Incorrigibility; 5. Perceptual Attributes; 6. The Reidentification of Physical Things; 7. Memory and Historical Knowledge; 8. Induction; 9. The Concept of a Person; 10. Truths of Reason. |
| Summary |
One of the most firmly entrenched beliefs of contemporary philosophy is that the only way to analyze a concept is to state its truth conditions. In epistemology this has led to the search for reductive analyses, to phenomenalism, behaviorism, and their analogues in other areas of knowledge. Arguing that these attempts at reductive analysis have invariably failed, John L. Pollock defends an alternative theory of conceptual analysis in this book. The author suggests that concepts should be analyzed in terms of their justification conditions rather than their truth conditions. After laying a th. |
| 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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Concepts.
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Concepts. |
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Analysis (Philosophy)
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Analysis (Philosophy) |
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Perception.
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Perception. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pollock, John L. Knowledge and justification. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, ©1974 xii, 348 pages Princeton legacy library. 9780691618272 |
| ISBN |
9781400870738 (e-book) |
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1400870739 (e-book) |
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9780691618272 |
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9780691072036 |
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