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" Description of situations : "
Nuno Venturinha.
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859100
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Venturinha, Nuno
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Description of situations : : an essay in contextualist epistemology /\ Nuno Venturinha.
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Cham, Switzerland :: Springer,, [2018]
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Springerbriefs in philosophy
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1 online resource
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3030001547
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: 9783030001544
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3030001539
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9783030001537
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Intro; Preface; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Language and Reasoning; 1.1 Interrelatedness of Words-The Pronoun "I": Its Systematicity-Personal Identity and Otherness as Proto-Beliefs; 1.2 Affirmative and Negative Sentences-The Infinity that Is Abstractly Excluded When We Affirm Something-Impossibility of a Representational Vacuum-What Context Allows Us to Conceive as Meaningful-Generalization of Descriptions: Our Multilevel Interpretative Schemes.
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1.6 Language as Opposed to Langue-The Priority of Linguistic Rules Over Word Coining-Discourse as Involving Language and Reason-Why There Cannot Be Non-conceptual Thoughts: The Linguistic Basis of Sensation-Thoughts-Davidson's Emphasis on the Correlation Between Language and Thinking-Our Awareness of Reality as Primordially Contextual-Rejection of Baumann's View According to Which There Can Be "Non-linguistic Attributions of Knowledge"References; 2 What the World Is Made of.
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This book approaches classic epistemological problems from a contextualist perspective. The author takes as his point of departure the fact that we are situated beings, more specifically that every single moment in our lives is already given within the framework of a specific context in the midst of which we understand ourselves and what surrounds us. In the process of his investigation, the author explores, in a fresh way, the works of key thinkers in epistemology. These include Bernard Bolzano, René Descartes, Gottlob Frege, Edmund Husserl, Immanuel Kant and Ludwig Wittgenstein, but also contemporary authors such as Stewart Cohen, Keith DeRose, David Lewis, Duncan Pritchard, Ernest Sosa and Charles Travis. Some of the topics covered are attributions of knowledge, the correspondence theory of truth, objectivity and subjectivity, possible worlds, primary and secondary evidence, scepticism, transcendentalism and relativism. The book also introduces a new contextualist thought-experiment for dealing with moral questions. Contextualism has received a great deal of attention in contemporary epistemology. It has the potential to resolve a number of issues that traditional epistemological approaches cannot address. In particular, a contextualist view opens the way to an understanding of those cognitive processes that require situational information to be fully grasped. However, contextualism poses serious difficulties in regard to epistemic invariance. This book offers readers an innovative approach to some fundamental questions in this field.
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Description (Philosophy)
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Description (Philosophy)
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Ethics moral philosophy.
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History of Western philosophy.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Philosophy of language.
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PHILOSOPHY-- Epistemology.
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Philosophy: epistemology theory of knowledge.
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121
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BD161
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