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Epistemetrics
- Title
- Epistemetrics / Nicholas Rescher.
- Author
- Rescher, Nicholas.
- Publication
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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- Description
- xi, 112 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-110) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Asking for more than truth : Duhem's law of cognitive complementarity -- 2. Kant's conception of knowledge as systematized information -- 3. Spencer's law of cognitive development -- 4. Gibbon's law of logarithmic returns -- 5. Adam's thesis on exponential growth -- 6. Quality retardation -- 7. How much can be known? : a Leibnizian perspective on the quantitative discrepancy between linguistic truth and objective fact -- 8. On the limits of knowledge : a Kantian perspective on cognitive finitude.
- ISBN
- 0521861209 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2005019557
- OCLC
- OCM61179511
- SCSB-5258160
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries