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BL
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660240
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Rescher, Nicholas.
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| Title & Author
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Ignorance : (On the Wider Implications of Deficient Knowledge) /\ Nicholas Rescher.
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| Publication Statement
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :: University of Pittsburgh Press,, c2009.
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1 online resource (xi, 170 p. :): ill. ;
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9780822973515
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: 0822973510
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9780822960140 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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0822960141 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-167) and index.
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| Contents
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The reach of ignorance -- Questions and insolubilia -- Cognitive shortfall -- Cognitive finitude -- On limits to science -- Obstacles to predictive foreknowledge -- Can computers mend matters? -- Implications of ignorance.
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Cognition.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
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| Dewey Classification
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121
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Project Muse.
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