Dialectics by Nicholas Rescher
The traditional and orthodox emphasis on the epistemological questions How can I convince myself? and How can I be certain? invites us to forget the fundamentally social nature of the ground rules of probative reasoning-their rooting in the issue of how we can go about convincing one another. The dialectic of disputation and controversy provides a useful antidote to such cognitive egocentrism by affording a point of departure in epistemology which blocks any temptation to forget the crucial fact that the buildup of knowledge is a communal enterprise subject to communal standards.Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of The Coherence Theory of Truth, Methodological Pragmatism, Conceptual Idealism, and other publications.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780873953726 |
| ISBN 10 | 087395372X |
| Title | Dialectics |
| Author | Nicholas Rescher |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 1977-06-30 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
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