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  title info:
    title: Satisfying Reason
    sub title: Studies in the Theory of Knowledge
  name:
    name part: Rescher, Nicolas.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 1995
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 246 pages)
  abstract: Leibniz said with a mixture of admiration and inspiration that the Duchess Sophie of Hannover always wanted to know the reason why behind the reason why. And that is just how rationality works: it wants to leave no loose ends to understanding, seeking to enable us to understand things through to the bitter end. In the twelve chapters that make up Satisfying Reason, Rescher develops and defends the following perspective: That rationality is a cardinal virtue in cognitive matters. That this is not something simple and cut-and-dried: in the pursuit of truth through the development of knowledge we face obstacles -- sometimes even insuperable ones. All that we can do is the best we can, realizing that even our very best may still be imperfect. Nevertheless, the venture is far from hopeless. While absolutes are unattainable in the cognitive venture, some solutions are situationally optimal, being comparatively the best that can be managed under the circumstances. That reason itself enables us to come to terms with this state of affairs, urging us to accept the best we can do as good enough. Satisfying Reason is an explanation of the presuppositions and methods of rational enquiry, an original exercise in metaknowledge, developing a systematic body of knowledge about the scope and limits of knowledge itself.
  note: by Nicolas Rescher.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy (General)
  subject:
    topic: Genetic epistemology
  subject:
    topic: Linguistics
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Humanities
  classification: B67
  classification: 501
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Episteme, A Series in the Foundational, Methodological, Philosophical, Psychological, Sociological, and Political Aspects of the Sciences, Pure and Applied ; 21
  identifier: 9789401104838 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9401104832 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9789401042161
  identifier: 9401042160
  identifier: 9401104832
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  record info:
    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 121227
    record change date: 20260422180646.0
    record identifier: in00003563935
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng