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Presumption and the practices of tentative cognition / Nicholas Rescher.
- Title
- Presumption and the practices of tentative cognition / Nicholas Rescher.
- Author
- Rescher, Nicholas
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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- Description
- xiii, 181 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "In Presumption and the Practices of Tentative Cognition, Nicholas Rescher endeavors to show that the process of presumption plays a role of virtually indispensable utility in matters of rational inquiry and communication. The origins of presumption may lie in law, but its future is assured by its service to the theory of information management and philosophy."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Hypothesis
- Genre/Form
- Electronic books.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-178) and index.
- Contents
- The legal roots of presumption -- Presumption and burden of proof -- Cognitive presumptions and truth -- Validating cognitive presumptions -- Presumption and inquiry -- Default reasoning -- Presumption and trust -- Presumption and communication -- Presumption in science and beyond -- Specificity prioritization and the primacy of the particular -- Dismissing extremely remote possibilities.
- ISBN
- 0521864747 (hardback)
- 9780521864749
- LCCN
- ^^2005031159
- OCLC
- 62322134
- SCSB-10366704
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library