1st Edition
The Ways of Knowing Or The Methods of Philosophy
The Ways of Knowing (1925) examines the ways of attaining knowledge and verifying it, looking at the six methods of logic. It is also concerned with the epistemological problem of interpreting the relation of truth to the mind.
Part 1. Ways of Attaining Knowledge: the Six Methods of Logic 1. The Method of Authoritarianism 2. The Method of Mysticism 3. The Methods of Rationalism and Empiricism 4. The Method of Pragmatism 5. The Method of Scepticism 6. Ententes and Alliances – the Federation of the Methods Part 2. Ways of Interpreting Knowledge: the Three Methods of Epistemology 7. The Method of Objectivism 8. The Method of Epistemological Dualism 9. The Method of Subjectivism 10. A Reinterpretation and Reconciliation of the Three Methods of Epistemology
Biography
William Pepperell Montague
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