Epistemetrics:
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge [u.a.]
Cambridge University Press
2006
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| Online-Zugang: | Table of contents Publisher description Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XI, 112 S. |
| ISBN: | 0521861209 |
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Preface page ix
1 Asking for More Than Truth: Duhem s Law of Cognitive
Complementarity 1
The Security/Definiteness Trade off and the Contrast Between
Science and Common Sense i
Science versus Common Sense 3
Further Ramifications 5
Knowledge in Perspective 6
2 Kant s Conception of Knowledge as Systematized
Information 9
Distinguishing Knowledge and Information 9
Kant on the Systematicity of Knowledge 10
The Hierarchical Textualization of Knowledge 13
3 Spencer s Law of Cognitive Development 15
Spencer s Law: The Dynamics of Cognitive
Complexity 15
How Cognitive Taxonomy Has Grown More
Complex 18
Evolving Complexity 24
A Quantitative Perspective 26
4 Gibbon s Law of Logarithmic Returns 29
Kant s Principle of Questions Propagation 2 9
Edward Gibbon and Logarithmic Returns 3 2
Diminishing Returns and Logarithmic Retardation 39
Planck s Principle 42
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viii Contents
5 Adams s Thesis on Exponential Growth 45
Scientific Progress 45
Adams s Thesis 46
Dimensions of the Phenomenon 48
The Linear Growth of Knowledge 51
The Lesson 54
Bibliographic Appendix 54
6 Quality Retardation 57
The Centrality of Importance 57
Levels of Cognitive Importance 59
Quality Retardation 62
Sites 64
Cognitive Importance as Reflected in Space Allocation 66
Cognitive Importance as Reflected in Citation 68
7 How Much Can Be Known? A Leibnizian Perspective
on the Quantitative Discrepancy Between Linguistic
Truth and Objective Fact 73
How Much Can a Person Know ? Leibniz on Language
Combinatorics 73
The Leibnizian Perspective 7 7
Statements Are Enumerable, As Are Truths 80
Truths versus Facts 81
The Inexhaustibility of Fact 81
Facts Are Transdenumerable 83
More Facts Than Truths 86
Noninstantiable Properties and Vagrant Predicates 87
Musical Chairs Once More go
Coda: Against Cognitive Nominalism 92
Appendix: Further Implications 93
8 On the Limits of Knowledge: A Kantian Perspective
on Cognitive Finitude 95
Limits of Knowledge 95
Cognitive Finitude 97
Surd Facts and Unknowability gg
Larger Lessons: Isaiah sLaw 101
Conclusion 105
Bibliography 107
Index of Names 111
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Contents
Preface page ix
1 Asking for More Than Truth: Duhem's Law of Cognitive
Complementarity 1
The Security/Definiteness Trade off and the Contrast Between
Science and Common Sense i
Science versus Common Sense 3
Further Ramifications 5
Knowledge in Perspective 6
2 Kant's Conception of Knowledge as Systematized
Information 9
Distinguishing Knowledge and Information 9
Kant on the Systematicity of Knowledge 10
The Hierarchical Textualization of Knowledge 13
3 Spencer's Law of Cognitive Development 15
Spencer's Law: The Dynamics of Cognitive
Complexity 15
How Cognitive Taxonomy Has Grown More
Complex 18
Evolving Complexity 24
A Quantitative Perspective 26
4 Gibbon's Law of Logarithmic Returns 29
Kant's Principle of Questions Propagation 2 9
Edward Gibbon and Logarithmic Returns 3 2
Diminishing Returns and Logarithmic Retardation 39
Planck's Principle 42
vii
viii Contents
5 Adams's Thesis on Exponential Growth 45
Scientific Progress 45
Adams's Thesis 46
Dimensions of the Phenomenon 48
The Linear Growth of Knowledge 51
The Lesson 54
Bibliographic Appendix 54
6 Quality Retardation 57
The Centrality of Importance 57
Levels of Cognitive Importance 59
Quality Retardation 62
Sites 64
Cognitive Importance as Reflected in Space Allocation 66
Cognitive Importance as Reflected in Citation 68
7 How Much Can Be Known? A Leibnizian Perspective
on the Quantitative Discrepancy Between Linguistic
Truth and Objective Fact 73
How Much Can a Person Know ? Leibniz on Language
Combinatorics 73
The Leibnizian Perspective 7 7
Statements Are Enumerable, As Are Truths 80
Truths versus Facts 81
The Inexhaustibility of Fact 81
Facts Are Transdenumerable 83
More Facts Than Truths 86
Noninstantiable Properties and Vagrant Predicates 87
Musical Chairs Once More go
Coda: Against Cognitive Nominalism 92
Appendix: Further Implications 93
8 On the Limits of Knowledge: A Kantian Perspective
on Cognitive Finitude 95
Limits of Knowledge 95
Cognitive Finitude 97
Surd Facts and Unknowability gg
Larger Lessons: Isaiah 'sLaw 101
Conclusion 105
Bibliography 107
Index of Names 111 |
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