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If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
ISBN10: 0792323459, ISBN13: 9780792323457, [publisher: Springer] Hardcover Book may contain some writing, highlighting, and or cover damage. Shipped fast and reliably! [Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1993]
ISBN10: 0792323459, ISBN13: 9780792323457, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Never before, in any anthology, have contemporary epistemologists and philosophers of language come together to address the single most neglected important issue at the confluence of these two branches of philosophy, namely: Can we know facts from reliable reports Besides Hume's subversive discussion of miracles and the literature thereon, testimony has been bypassed by most Western philosophers; whereas in classical Indian (Pramana) theories of evidence and knowledge philosophical debates have raged for centuries about the status of word-generated knowledge. `Is the response 'I was told by an expert on the subject' as respectable as 'I saw' or 'I inferred' in answer to 'How do you know '' is a question answered in diverse and subtle ways by Buddhists, Vaisesikas and Naiyayikas. For the first time this book makes available the riches of those debates, translating from Sanskrit some contemporary Indian Pandits' reactions to Western analytic accounts of meaning and knowledge. For advanced undergraduates in philosophy, for researchers - in Australia, Asia, Europe or America - on epistemology, theory of meaning, Indian or comparative philosophy, as well as for specialists interested in this relatively fresh topic of knowledge transmission and epistemic dependence this book wil ...
ISBN10: 0792323459, ISBN13: 9780792323457, [publisher: Springer] Hardcover The book has minimal shelf wear. There is only some faint edge wear. Otherwise, it is sharp, clean, and bright. The dust jacket has light edge wear, and faint rubbing. Otherwise, it is clean, bright, and now adorned with mylar. [San Jose, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1993]
ISBN10: 0792323459, ISBN13: 9780792323457, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Never before, in any anthology, have contemporary epistemologists and philosophers of language come together to address the single most neglected important issue at the confluence of these two branches of philosophy, namely: Can we know facts from reliable reports Besides Hume's subversive discussion of miracles and the literature thereon, testimony has been bypassed by most Western philosophers; whereas in classical Indian (Pramana) theories of evidence and knowledge philosophical debates have raged for centuries about the status of word-generated knowledge. `Is the response 'I was told by an expert on the subject' as respectable as 'I saw' or 'I inferred' in answer to 'How do you know '' is a question answered in diverse and subtle ways by Buddhists, Vaisesikas and Naiyayikas. For the first time this book makes available the riches of those debates, translating from Sanskrit some contemporary Indian Pandits' reactions to Western analytic accounts of meaning and knowledge. For advanced undergraduates in philosophy, for researchers - in Australia, Asia, Europe or America - on epistemology, theory of meaning, Indian or comparative philosophy, as well as for specialists interested in this relatively fresh topic of knowledge transmission and epistemic dependence this book wil ...
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