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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Perception, knowledge, and understanding in Aristotle's epistemology -- Plato and Aristotle on our perceptual beginnings -- Understanding by induction -- Perception and perceptual contents -- Perception, experience, and locomotion : Aristotle on nonrational learning -- Perception in Aristotle's ethics |
| Summary |
Though Aristotle is often thought to be an empiricist-someone who thinks all knowledge is somehow derived from perception-the philosopher is often thought to have little to say on these matters. Gasser-Wingate here offers a sustained examination of these discussions and their epistemological, psychological, and ethical implications. It defends an interpretation of Aristotle as a moderate sort of empiricist, who thinks we can develop sophisticated forms of knowledge by broadly perceptual means, and that we therefore share an important part of our cognitive lives with nonrational animals, but al |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on January 21, 2022) |
| Subject |
Aristotle
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| SUBJECT |
Aristotle. fast (OCoLC)fst00029885 |
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Perception (Philosophy)
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Empiricism.
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perception.
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Empiricism.
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Perception (Philosophy)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197567470 |
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0197567479 |
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