Analogical Investigations-Lloyd-Camridge University Press-9781107518377
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Analogical Investigations-Lloyd-Camridge University Press
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 and redresses the balance in
favour of looser, admittedly non-demonstrative analogical reasoning. For
this he takes examples both from ancient Greek and Chinese thought and
from the materials of recent ethnography to show how different ancient
and modern cultures have developed different styles of reasoning. He
also develops two original but controversial ideas, that of semantic
stretch (to cast doubt on the literal/metaphorical dichotomy) and the
multidimensionality of reality (to bypass the realism versus relativism
and nature versus nurture controversies).
Book | |
ISBN | 9781107518377 |
PUBLISHER | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 146 |
Binding | PAPERBACK |
Edition | 2015 |
Language | English |
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