Research Catalog

Epistemetrics /

Title
Epistemetrics / Nicholas Rescher.
Author
Rescher, Nicholas.
Publication
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

2 Items

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
TextUse in library BD212.5 .R47 2006Off-site
TextUse in library Off-site

Details

Description
xi, 112 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-110) and index.
Contents
Asking for more than truth : Duhem's law of cognitive complementarity -- Kant's conception of knowledge as systematized information -- Spencer's law of cognitive development -- Gibbon's law of logarithmic returns -- Adams's thesis on exponential growth -- Quality retardation -- How much can be known? : a Leibnizian perspective on the quantitative discrepancy between linguistic truth and objective fact -- On the limits of knowledge : a Kantian perspective on cognitive finitude.
ISBN
0521861209 (hardback)
LCCN
2005019557
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library