Knowledge, Perception, and Memory
by Carl Ginet
Publisher: D. Reidel Publishing Co. 1975
ISBN/ASIN: 9027705747
Number of pages: 214
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This book attempts a general definition of what it is to know that a thing is so. The book gives accounts of two fundamentally important kinds of knowledge: that based on perception and that based on memory. Regarding the justification of claims to know, it takes a fundamentalist approach.
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