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Author Abath, André J., author.

Title Knowing what things are : an inquiry-based approach / André J. Abath
Published Cham : Springer, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 138 pages)
Series Synthese library ; volume 466
Synthese library ; v. 466.
Contents Introduction -- Part I Toward the erotetic view -- The Knowledge of What Things Are: Possible Views -- Questions and Answers: Understanding Knowledge-Wh -- The Erotetic View -- Part V. Developing the erotetic view -- The Gradability of the Knowledge of What Things Are -- The Knowledge of What Things Are: Ignorance and Obligations
Summary This book provides an account of what is to know what things are, focusing on kinds, both natural (such as water) and social (such as marriage). It brings tools from an area that has received much attention in recent years, the epistemology of inquiry. The knowledge of what things are is to be understood as resulting from successful inquiries directed at questions of the form What is x?, where x stands for a given kind of thing. The book also addresses knowledge-wh in general (which includes knowledge-who and knowledge-where), as well as the phenomenon of ignorance regarding what things are and our obligations in respect to knowing what things are. It also brings to light new avenues of research for those interested in the relation between the knowledge of what things are and concept possession and amelioration. Knowing What Things Are should be of interest to researchers in Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Social Philosophy and Linguistics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 19, 2022)
Subject Knowledge, Theory of.
epistemology.
Knowledge, Theory of
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783031073656
3031073657