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Author Schubert, Frank D

Title A Modest Certainty
Published Lanham : University Press of America, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (395 pages)
Contents Introduction; 1 Personal Proper Namesas a Certainty Standard; 2 Personal Proper Namesas a Certainty Standard; 3 Religious Certainty; 4 Political Certainty; 5 Familial/Tribal Certainty; 6 Scientific Certainty; 7 Certainty as We Understand It; Index
Summary Schubert squarely addresses the question of whether there is a single standard of certainty that can be applied to such disparate areas as logic, mathematics, politics, religion, familial/tribal commitments, and science. The result is a new "philosophy in a grand manner" and a powerful ethical proposal for our time
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Certainty.
Names, Personal.
PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
Certainty
Names, Personal
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012935728
ISBN 9780761858980
0761858989