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Paperback The Philosophy of Curiosity Book

ISBN: 1138098663

ISBN13: 9781138098664

The Philosophy of Curiosity

(Part of the Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy Series)

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In this book, Ilhan Inan questions the classical definition of curiosity as a desire to know. Working in an area where epistemology and philosophy of language overlap, Inan forges a link between our ability to become aware of our ignorance and our linguistic aptitude to construct terms referring to things unknown.

The book introduces the notion of inostensible reference (or reference to the unknown). Ilhan connects this notion to related...

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