Conventionalism
"The daring idea that convention - human decision - lies at the root of so-called necessary truths, on the one hand, and much of empirical science, on the other, reverberates through twentieth-century philosophy, constituting a revolution comparable to Kant's Copernican revolution. Convent...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge u.a.
Cambridge University Press
2006
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "The daring idea that convention - human decision - lies at the root of so-called necessary truths, on the one hand, and much of empirical science, on the other, reverberates through twentieth-century philosophy, constituting a revolution comparable to Kant's Copernican revolution. Conventionalism is the first comprehensive study of this radical turn. One of the conclusions it reaches is that the term 'truth by convention', widely held to epitomize conventionalism, reflects a misunderstanding that has led to the association of conventionalism with relativism and postmodernism. Conventionalism, this book argues, did not contend that truths can be stipulated, but rather, that stipulations are often confused with truths. Their efforts were thus directed toward disentangling truth and convention, not reducing truth to convention."--Jacket |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Formerly CIP |
| Beschreibung: | X, 330 S. graph. Darst. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781107407312 978-1-107-40731-2 0521826195 0-521-82619-5 9780521826198 978-0-521-82619-8 |