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BL
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971054
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b725424
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| Main Entry
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Weissman, David,1936-
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| Title & Author
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Styles of thought : : interpretation, inquiry, and imagination /\ David Weissman.
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, ©2008.
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1 online resource (viii, 189 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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1435628934
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: 9781435628939
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Two styles of explanation : interpretation and inquiry -- Interpretation -- Inquiry -- Different tasks -- Perspective -- Contrary responses : an example -- Mixed modes -- Applications -- Values -- Morality -- Politics -- Interpretation : self and society -- Origin and context -- Distortion -- Emotion -- Assumptions for a taxonomy -- Stories -- Socialized interpretations -- Eliding fact and value -- Magic, myth, and metaphor -- Faith and fantasy -- Philosophic rationales -- Tolerance -- Inquiry : practical life and science -- Context and objectives -- Meaning -- Truth -- Animadversions -- Engaging other people and things -- Aims -- Ideals -- A choice -- A disputed question -- Ontological alternatives -- The dialectic of untestable ideas -- Reconciliation -- Imagination -- Construction -- Construction rules -- Variation -- Discipline -- Leading principles -- Priority -- Precedents -- Use -- An inventory of leading principles -- Values -- When practical life and science disagree -- Categorial form.
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Imagination (Philosophy)
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Inquiry (Theory of knowledge)
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Interpretation (Philosophy)
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Imagination (Philosophy)
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Inquiry (Theory of knowledge)
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Interpretation (Philosophy)
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Philosophy Religion.
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PHILOSOPHY-- Epistemology.
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Philosophy.
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| Dewey Classification
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121/.68
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B824.17.W45 2008eb
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