Rescher, Nicholas

Epistemetrics - New York Cambridge University 2006 - 112p

includes index and biblioraphy

Asking for more than truth: Duhem`s Law of Cognitive complementarity.........1 Kant`s conception of Knowledge as systematized information.........9 Spencer`s law of cognitive development....15 Gibbon`s law of logarithmic returns..........29 adams`s Thesis on exponential growth......45 Quality retardation..................57 HOw much can be known? a leibnizian perspective on the Quantitative discrepany between linguistic truth and objective fact.................73 on the limits of knowledge ....95

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