Knowledge and the Known Historical Perspectives in Epistemology
A word of warning concerning the aims of this volume is in order. Other wise some readers might be unpleasantly surprised by the fact that two of the chapters of an ostensibly historical book are largely topical rather than historical. They are Chapters
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The New Synthese Historical Library Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy VOLUME 11
Series Editor: NORMAN KRETZMANN, Cornell University
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0/ Helsinki RICHARD SORABJI, University 0/ London
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JAAKKO HINTIKKA
KNOWLEDGE AND THE KNOWN Historical Perspectives in Epistemology
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS DORDRECHT / BOSTON / LONDON
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: 74-76473
Book Information: First edition: 1974, D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, the Netherlands Second edition: 1991, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht / London / Boston
ISBN-13: 978-94-010-2219-4 e-ISBN-13: 978-94-010-2217-0 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-010-2217-0
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction On the Origin of the Essays CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER
1 / Knowledge and Its Objects in Plato 2/ Plato on Knowing How, Knowing That, and Knowing What 3/ Time, Truth, and Knowledge in Aristotle and Other Greek Philosophers 4/ Practical vs. Theoretical Reason - An Ambiguous Legacy 5/ 'Cogito, Ergo Sum': Inference or Performance? 6/ Kant's 'New Method of Thought' and His Theory of Mathematics 7/ Are Logical Truths Analytic? 8/ Kant on the Mathematical Method 9/ A Priori Truths and Things-In-Themselves 10/ 'Dinge an sich' Revisited II/Knowledge by Acquaintance - Individuation b