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Assurance : an Austinian view of knowledge and knowledge claims /

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What is an assurance? What do we do when we claim to know? Krista Lawlor offers an original account based on the work of J.L. Austin. She addresses challenges to contextualist semantic theories; resolves closure-based skeptical paradoxes; and helps us tread the line between acknowledging our fallibi...

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Main Author: Lawlor, Krista
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Austin, J. L. > (John Langshaw), > 1911-1960.
Austin, J. L. > (John Langshaw), > 1911-1960
Austin, J. L. > 1911-1960
Austin, John Langshaw.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Ordinary-language philosophy.
Théorie de la connaissance.
Philosophie du langage ordinaire.
epistemology.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Knowledge, Theory of
Ordinary-language philosophy
Semantik
Erkenntnistheorie
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Summary:What is an assurance? What do we do when we claim to know? Krista Lawlor offers an original account based on the work of J.L. Austin. She addresses challenges to contextualist semantic theories; resolves closure-based skeptical paradoxes; and helps us tread the line between acknowledging our fallibility and skepticism.
Physical Description:1 online resource (231 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191632259
0191632252
9781299241237
1299241239
9780191748127
0191748129