Knowing and seeing : groundwork for a new empiricism /

What is knowledge? What, if anything, can we know? Michael Ayers initiates a fresh approach to these questions by recovering the insight in the distinction between 'knowledge' and 'belief' that was common philosophical currency for two millennia after Plato. He argues that knowle...

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Groundwork for a new empiricism
1. Verfasser:
Ayers, Michael
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
What is knowledge? What, if anything, can we know? Michael Ayers initiates a fresh approach to these questions by recovering the insight in the distinction between 'knowledge' and 'belief' that was common philosophical currency for two millennia after Plato. He argues that knowledge comes only with direct cognitive contact with reality or truth.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xii, 211 pages)
Anmerkungen:
Previously issued in print: 2019.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-257013-7
0-19-187199-0
0-19-257012-9
Schlagworte:
Knowledge, Theory of.
Empiricism.
Philosophy.
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