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Michael Williams Groundless Belief: Essay on the Possibility of Epistemology (Library of philosophy and logic)
Blackwell Publishers 0631176101 / 9780631176107 Hardcover Good
0631176101 Hardcover, no dust jacket. English Import edition, may be early edition, 1977 copyright, Chaucer Press publishers. Rubber stamp with former owner's name on left side of front paste-down, also on title page. Small publisher sticker on front endpaper has a small sticker with publisher's name and the price in pounds, with the price penciled over. There is underlining on a number of the pages in pencil as well. From the endpaper: This book argues for two conclusions, one philosophical, the other metaphilosophical. The philosophical conclusion is that any epistemological theory which is, in a broad sense, phenomenalistic is radically defective. The metaphilosophical conclusion is that epistemology, as it has generally been practised, is not a discipline worthy of further pursuit. ?Phenomenalism? is defined as the theory that our knowledge of the physical world rests on a foundation of epistemologically basic knowledge having something to do with perception. The point of this wider-than-normal usage, according to which even some forms of ?direct realism? deserve to be called phenomenalistic, is to call attention to important continuities of thought which exist between various epistemological theories often thought to be competitors, and to contrast them all with the view defended by the author: that empirical knowledge neither has nor needs foundations. In so far as the traditional task of epistemology has been to place knowledge on its proper foundations, it follows that epistemology is not something we should concern ourselves with further. *
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