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The fragmentation of reason : preface to a pragmatic theory of cognitive evaluation
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ISBN: 0262192934 Year: 1990 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.): MIT press

L'élision : essai sur la philosophie d'E. Schrödinger
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ISBN: 2020114690 9782020114691 Year: 1990 Volume: 2 vol *4 Publisher: Paris Seuil

Knowledge and the state of nature : an essay in conceptual synthesis
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ISBN: 0198242433 9780198242437 Year: 1990 Publisher: Oxford New York Clarendon Press Oxford University Press


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The Fourth Way : A Theory of Knowledge
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ISBN: 0253055830 Year: 1990 Publisher: Indiana University Press

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Reinhardt Grossmann holds that a realistic ontology in regard to perceptual, physical, and mathematical objects can be combined with an empiricistic theory of knowledge. In the first part of the book he shows that the traditional distinction between primary and secondary qualities leads to idealism, while the common Cartesian conception of knowledge by way of ideas leads to skepticism. In an effort to avoid these twin scourges of modem philosophy, the author argues for the existence of ordinary perceptual objects and explains how we know these objects directly through simple acts of perception. The second part of the book is concerned with the way in which we know what is in our minds. Grossmann maintains that this kind of knowledge is just as fallible as perception. In the third part the author concludes that logic, arithmetic, and set theory concern matters of fact and that we discover these facts through empirical knowledge.


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The Potential of Modern Discourse : Musil, Peirce, and Perturbation
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ISBN: 0253055806 Year: 1990 Publisher: Indiana University Press

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The postmodern response to the century-old crisis of classical discourse (which called into question the possibility of a fixed, objective, and absolute knowledge) has been to declare the death of the subject, and the end or absence of meaning. The Potential of Modern Discourse seeks to recover for contemporary discourse an alternative possibility by returning to the modernist project of linking ethics, politics, and the discourse of knowledge. In the multiple, ironic discourses of Robert Musil, the semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce, and the physics of Werner Heisenberg, Marike Finlay finds the basis for a new discourse of knowledge. In her pragmatic, consensualmodel, meaning and truth are not objectively or unilaterally established, but rather "triadically" co-constructed as realtionship among "object," "representamen" (or "sign"), and "interpretant" (the terms are Peirce's), and this triadic realtionship is constantly shifting through time and space. By approaching Musil's The Man without Qualities as discourse, Finlay finds in it a re-presentation of the theory of knowledge implicit in the Peircean triadicity and Heisenber's philosophy of physics. Her reading constitutes one of the first attempts to apply Peircean semiotics to a literary work. in Musil's modernist response to the crisis of representation, Finlway discovers an alternative to the postmodernist complete deconstruction of sense.

Nominalism and contemporary nominalism : ontological and epistemologicalimplications of the work of W.V.O Quine and of N. Goodman
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ISBN: 0792309049 9401074534 9400921195 9780792309048 Year: 1990 Volume: 215 Publisher: Dordrecht Boston London Kluwer Acadmic Publishers

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Metaphysics --- Theory of knowledge --- Quine, Willard Van Orman --- Goodman, Nelson --- Being --- Connaissance [Théorie de la ] --- Empiricism --- Empirisme --- Epistemologie --- Epistemology --- Epistémologie --- Etre (Philosophie) --- Kenleer --- Kennisleer --- Kennistheorie --- Kentheorie --- Knowledge [Theory of ] --- Nominalism --- Nominalisme --- Ontologie --- Ontology --- Theorie of knowledge --- Theorievorming --- Théorie de la connaissance --- Zijn (Filosofie) --- Zijnsleer --- Nominalism. --- Empiricism. --- Ontology. --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Quine, Willard Van Orman, --- Goodman, Nelson, --- Quine, W. V. --- Goodman, Nelson. --- Contribution à la théorie de la connaissance --- Contribution à l'ontologie --- 1 QUINE, WILLARD VAN ORMAN --- 1 GOODMAN, NELSON --- 165.725 --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Philosophy --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Substance (Philosophy) --- Conceptualism --- Logic --- Realism --- Reality --- Scholasticism --- Universals (Philosophy) --- Psychology --- Experience --- Rationalism --- Filosofie. Psychologie--QUINE, WILLARD VAN ORMAN --- Filosofie. Psychologie--GOODMAN, NELSON --- -Goodman, Nelson --- -Quine, W. V. --- -Goodman, Henry Nelson --- Contributions in ontology --- Contributions in theory of knowledge --- -Contributions in ontology --- 165.725 Nominalisme --- 1 GOODMAN, NELSON Filosofie. Psychologie--GOODMAN, NELSON --- 1 QUINE, WILLARD VAN ORMAN Filosofie. Psychologie--QUINE, WILLARD VAN ORMAN --- Kuaĭn, Uillard van Ormen --- קואיין, ו. ו. א. --- Goodman, Henry Nelson --- Quine, Willard van Orman --- Nominalisme. --- Empirisme. --- Ontologie. --- Théorie de la connaissance. --- Contribution à la théorie de la connaissance. --- Contribution à l'ontologie.

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