Aporetics : Rational Deliberation in the Face of Inconsistency.
The word apory stems from the Greek aporia, meaning impasse or perplexing difficulty. InAporetics, Nicholas Rescher defines an apory as a group of individually plausible but collectively incompatible theses. Rescher examines historic, formulaic, and systematic apories and couples these with aporetic...
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Table of Contents:
- The nature of apories
- Coherentism : an aporetic approach to empirical inquiry
- Counterfactual conditionals
- Variant analyses of counterfactuals and problems of probability
- The aporetics of counterfactual history
- Paradoxes
- Philosophical aporetics
- The dialectics of philosophical development
- The rationale of aporetic variation.