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971021
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b725391
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Unger, Peter.
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Ignorance : : a Case for Scepticism.
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| Publication Statement
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Cary :: Oxford University Press, USA,, 1975.
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1 online resource (336 pages)
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0191519693
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: 9780191519697
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| Notes
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""10. Reformulating our First Hypotheses for Verbs and Adjectives""
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| Contents
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""Preface""; ""CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""I. A CLASSICAL FORM OF SCEPTICAL ARGUMENT""; ""1. Some Problems in Stating a Sceptical Thesis and some Steps towards their Resolution""; ""2. An Argument Concerning the External World""; ""3. The Essential Reasoning""; ""4. The Assumption of Reasoning""; ""5. Some Cartesian Complications""; ""6. A Unified Statement of the Argument""; ""7. How Further Complications Place Limits on this Argument""; ""8. On Trying to Reverse this Argument: Exotic Cases and Feelings of Irrationality""; ""9. Ordinary Cases and these same Feelings""
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""1. The Patterns our Language Reserves for the Central Concepts of our Thought""""2. Constructing some simple Sentences and Talking about some Entailments""; ""3. How Verbs Yield Entailments to Knowledge""; ""4. How an Hypothesis may be Taken as a Governing Paradigm""; ""5. Why some Entailments from Verbs are not to be Found""; ""6. Sentences with Adjectives and some Hypotheses about them""; ""7. Adjectives which Confirm our First Hypothesis""; ""8. How some Adjectives Disconfirm this First Hypothesis""; ""9. The Absence of Adjectives which Entail Falsity""
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""10. The Explanatory Power of the Attitude of Certainty""""11. The Retreat to Reasonable Believing: A Complex of Arguments and Problems""; ""12. An Argument concerning Other Times""; ""13. How much Alleged Knowledge can this Form of Argument Compellingly Exclude?""; ""II. A LANGUAGE WITH ABSOLUTE TERMS""; ""1. Sophisticated Worries about what Scepticism Requires""; ""2. Absolute Terms and Relative Terms""; ""3. On Certainty and Certain Related Things""; ""4. The Doubtful Applicability of some Absolute Terms""; ""5. Meaning and Use""; ""6. Understanding, Learning, and Paradigm Cases""
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""5. The Attitude of Certainty and the Absoluteness of 'Certain'""""6. Why is there Always Something Wrong with Having this Absolute Attitude?""; ""7. Helpful Experiences for Rejecting the Attitude of Certainty""; ""8. Helpful Experiences for the Hardest Cases; Other Times""; ""9. Helpful Experiences for the Hardest Cases; Cartesian Propositions""; ""10. An Absolutely Clear Analysis of Knowing""; ""11. Some Implications of this Analysis""; ""12. Taking Stock of our Scepticism""; ""IV. SOME WAGES OF IGNORANCE""
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""7. How Better to Focus on Actual Meaning""""8. A Method, a Principle, and some Auxiliary Aids to getting Proper Focus""; ""9. Does Knowing Require Being Certain?""; ""10. Closing our Defence and Opening a New Argument""; ""III. AN ARGUMENT FOR UNIVERSAL IGNORANCE""; ""1. A Preliminary Statement of the Argument""; ""2. The First Premiss: The Idea that if one Knows it is all right for one to be Certain""; ""3. The Second Premiss: The Idea that it is never all right to be Absolutely Certain""; ""4. What Attitude is Involved in one's being Absolutely Certain?""
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Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
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Skepticism.
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Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
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Skepticism.
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| Dewey Classification
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121
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BD221.U53 1975eb
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