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Epistemetrics

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

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Description
xi, 112 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Knowledge, Theory of
  • Verification (Empiricism)
  • epistemology
  • Erkenntnistheorie
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
  • 9780521861205
  • 0521861209
LCCN
2005019557
OCLC
  • ocm61179511
  • 61179511
  • SCSB-9579831
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library