The Theory of Knowledge: A Contribution to Some Problems of Logic and Metaphysics [Paperback]

Leonard T. Hobhouse (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 14, 2004

CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION. Nature of the Problem PART I. Data: Simple Apprehension -- The Content of Apprehension -- Obscure, Clear, and Analysed Consciousness -- Memory -- Construction -- Ideas -- General Ideas -- Resemblance and Identity -- The Qualitative Judgment -- The Judgments of Relation and Description -- General Nature of Judgment -- The Validity of Judgment PART II. Inference: Imagination and its Factors -- Imagination as Constructive -- Inference - General Characteristics -- The Implications of Inference -- Generalisation -- Equivalent and Quasi-equivalent Inferences -- The Basis of Generalisation -- Development of the Principles of Generalisation -- Criticisms of the Theory of Generalisation -- Probable Reasoning and Analogy -- Numerical Probability -- Possibility -- The Inductive Methods -- Scientific Induction -- The Interconnection of General Truths -- Inductions and Hypothesis -- Constructive Generalisation -- Explanation -- Summary of the Theory of Inference PART III. Knowledge: Validity -- The Validity of Knowledge -- The Conception of External Reality -- Substance -- The Conception of Self -- Reality as a System -- Knowledge and Reality -- Grounds of Knowledge and Belief INDEX

Product Details

• Paperback: 652 pages
• Publisher: University Press of the Pacific (September 14, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1410216454
• ISBN-13: 978-1410216458
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 1.4 inches
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