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Thought
By (Author) Gilbert H. Harman
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Philosophical traditions and schools of thought
121
Hardback
210
Width 127mm, Height 203mm
312g
Thoughts and other mental states are defined by their role in a functional system. Since it is easier to determine when we have knowledge than when reasoning has occurred, Gilbert Harman attempts to answer the latter question by seeing what assumptions about reasoning would best account for when we have knowledge and when not. He describes inductio