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When words are called for : a defense of ordinary language philosophy / Avner Baz.

Title: When words are called for : a defense of ordinary language philosophy / Avner Baz.
Author: Baz, Avner, 1964-
Publication: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.

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xv, 238 p.; 25 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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committed to retain

Contents

The basic conflict: an initial characterization -- The main arguments against ordinary language philosophy -- Must philosophers rely on intuitions? -- Contextualism and the burden of knowledge -- Contextualism, anti-contextualism, and knowing as being in a position to give assurance -- Conclusion: skepticism and the dialectic of (semantically pure) "knowledge" -- Epilogue: ordinary language philosophy, Kant, and the roots of antinomial thinking.

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9780674055223 (alk. paper)

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^^2011039381

OCLC

755213493

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