Belief and Truth

Belief and Truth
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 9780199916818
ISBN-13 : 0199916810
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Book Synopsis Belief and Truth by : Katja Maria Vogt

Download or read book Belief and Truth written by Katja Maria Vogt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belief and Truth: A Skeptic Reading of Plato explores a Socratic intuition about belief, doxa — belief is "shameful." In aiming for knowledge, one must aim to get rid of beliefs. Vogt shows how deeply this proposal differs from contemporary views, but that it nevertheless speaks to intuitions we are likely to share with Plato, ancient skeptics, and Stoic epistemologists.


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