Cognitive pragmatism : the theory of knowledge in pragmatic perspective / Nicholas Rescher.

Author: Rescher, Nicholas.

Imprint:[Pittsburgh, Pa.] : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2001.

Descriptionxi, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:Knowledge of the truth in pragmatic perspective -- Epistemic justification -- Categories : a pragmatic approach -- On learned ignorance and the limits of knowledge -- The deficits of skepticism -- Cognitive realism : a perspective on existence and our knowledge of it -- Induction as enthymematic reasoning : a pragmatic perspective on inference to the best systematizaton -- On circularity and regress in rational validation -- Reification fallacies and inappropriate totalities -- What if things were different? -- Meta-knowledge and cognitive limits : rudiments of formalized epistemology.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-248) and index.

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