Language & the Pursuit of Truth
Title | Language & the Pursuit of Truth PDF eBook |
Author | John Wilson |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Pages | 116 |
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Essays on the pursuit of truth, or the progress of knowledge: and on the fundamental principle of all evidence and expectation. By the author of Essays on the formation and publication of opinions S. Bailey
Title | Essays on the pursuit of truth, or the progress of knowledge: and on the fundamental principle of all evidence and expectation. By the author of Essays on the formation and publication of opinions S. Bailey PDF eBook |
Author | ESSAYS. |
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Pages | 332 |
Release | 1844 |
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Essays on the pursuit of truth, on the progress of knowledge, by the author of Essays on the formation and publication of opinions
Title | Essays on the pursuit of truth, on the progress of knowledge, by the author of Essays on the formation and publication of opinions PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Bailey |
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Pages | 332 |
Release | 1844 |
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Essays on the Pursuit of Truth, on the Progress of Knowledge, and the Fundamental Principle of All Evidence and Expectaion
Title | Essays on the Pursuit of Truth, on the Progress of Knowledge, and the Fundamental Principle of All Evidence and Expectaion PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Bailey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 1831 |
Genre | Causation |
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Essays on the Pursuit of Truth and on the Progress of Knowledge
Title | Essays on the Pursuit of Truth and on the Progress of Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Bailey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 1844 |
Genre | Causation |
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Criminal Justice and the Pursuit of Truth
Title | Criminal Justice and the Pursuit of Truth PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Hillier |
Publisher | Policy Press |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2022-12 |
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ISBN | 1529203236 |
Can the criminal justice system achieve justice based on its ability to determine the truth? This book investigates the concept of truth and scrutinises how well the criminal justice process facilitates truth-finding. It bridges the gap between what people expect from the justice system and what it can legitimately deliver.
Pursuit of Truth
Title | Pursuit of Truth PDF eBook |
Author | Willard Van Orman Quine |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 82 |
Release | 1992-10-20 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0674254473 |
In Pursuit of Truth W. V. Quine gives us his latest word on issues to which he has devoted many years. As he says in the preface: "In these pages I have undertaken to update, sum up, and clarify my variously intersecting views on cognitive meaning, objective reference, and the grounds of knowledge?'The pursuit of truth is a quest that links observation, theory, and the world. Various faulty efforts to forge such links have led to much intellectual confusion. Quine's efforts to get beyond the confusion begin by rejecting the very idea of binding together word and thing, rejecting the focus on the isolated word. For him, observation sentences and theoretical sentences are the alpha and omega ofthe scientific enterprise. Notions like "idea" and "meaning" are vague, but a sentence-now there's something you can sink your teeth into. Starting thus with sentences, Quine sketches an epistemological setting for the pursuit of truth. He proceeds to show how reification and reference contribute to the elaborate structure that can indeed relate science to its sensory evidence.In this book Quine both summarizes and moves ahead. Rich, lively chapters dissect his major concerns-evidence, reference, meaning, intension, and truth. "Some points;' he writes, "have become clearer in my mind in the eight years since Theories and Things. Some that were already clear in my mind have become clearer on paper. And there are some that have meanwhile undergone substantive change for the better." This is a key book for understanding the effort that a major philosopher has made a large part of his life's work: to naturalize epistemology in the twentieth century. The book is concise and elegantly written, as one would expect, and does not assume the reader's previous acquaintance with Quine's writings. Throughout, it is marked by Quine's wit and economy of style.