Epistemetrics
By: Nicholas Rescher.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of.; Verification (Empiricism)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Asking for more than truth : Duhem's law of cognitive complementarity; title: Kant's conception of knowledge as systematized information; title: Spencer's law of cognitive development; title: Gibbon's law of logarithmic returns; title: Adams's thesis on exponential growth; title: Quality retardation; title: How much can be known? : a Leibnizian perspective on the quantitative discrepancy between linguistic truth and objective fact; title: On the limits of knowledge : a Kantian perspective on cognitive finitude.