Methods of knowledge : an essay in epistemology, /

"It is the plan of this investigation to give first a definition of knowledge. The methods will then be considered by which men have thought it possible to attain knowledge of the self on the one hand, and the not-self on the other. Those who have not begun to reflect believe that they get trut...

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Main Author: Smith, Walter, -1907
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : London : Macmillan Company; Macmillan and Company, 1899.
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Table of Contents:
  • Definitions of knowledge.
  • Sensation, feeling, and volition as cognitive factors.
  • The conceptual view of knowledge.
  • The origin of concepts.
  • The cognitive value of concepts.
  • Empiricism.
  • Knowledge by sympathetic imitation.
  • Sympathetic imitation in art.
  • Sympathetic imitation in morality.
  • Synthesis of the methods.
  • The limits of knowledge.
  • Self-consciousness.
  • The philosophical problem.
  • Practical applications.