عنوان

Truth, Knowledge and Causation

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9781317440413)electronic bk.(

عنوان اصلي

Truth, Knowledge and Causation

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Routlege

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1 online resource )266 page

عنوان فروست

Routledge Library Editions: Epistemolog

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Series: Routledge Library Editions: Epistemolog

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. On the Nature and the Observability of the Causal Relation -- 2. On the Analysis of Causality -- 3. Causation: Perceivable? Or only Inferred? -- 4. Concerning the Uniformity of Causality -- 5. Explanation, Mechanism, and Teleology -- 6. On the Attributes of Material Things -- 7. 'Substants', Capacities, and Tendencies -- 8. Symbols, Signs, and Signals -- 9. Objectivity, Objective Reference, and Perception -- 10. A Liberalistic View of Truth -- 11. Propositions, Truth, and the Ultimate Criterion of Truth -- 12. Propositions, Opinions, Sentences, and Facts -- 13. Moore's 'The Refutation of ldealism' -- 14. Philosophy and Natural Science -- 15. The Method of Knowledge in Philosoph Originally published in 1969. This book examines the fundamental concepts of metaphysics and of theory of knowledge. Topics treated include the nature of substance and of causation; their relation to natural laws, dispositions, and attributes; the nature of consciousness and purposiveness; of symbols, signs, and signals, and their relation to interpretation and objective reference; and the nature and criteria of truth. The author holds that philosophy is by intent a science and that its becoming so requires precise and non-arbitrary semantical analysis of basic philosophical terms. He argues that philosophy then, like the other sciences, has practical importance: in its case this consists in its capacity to give to difficult practical decisions not only the efficacy insured by its application of the findings of the other sciences, but in addition some of the wisdom which is philosophy's distinctive ultimate ai

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Causation

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Knowledge, Theory of

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Truth

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نشانه اثر

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Ducasse, C. J.

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