Analogical Investigations: Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human Reasoning

by G.E.R. Lloyd

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Western philosophy and science are responsible for constructing some powerful tools of investigation, aiming at discovering the truth, delivering robust explanations, verifying conjectures, showing that inferences are sound and demonstrating results conclusively. By contrast reasoning that depends on analogies has often been viewed with suspicion. Professor Lloyd first explores the origins of those Western ideals, criticises some of their excesses...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1107107849

ISBN13:9781107107847

Release Date:November 2015

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:144 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"

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