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Type: 
Article in Journal
Author: 
Floridi, Luciano
Title: 
Scepticism and the Search for Knowledge: a Peirceish Answer to a Kantian Doubt
Year: 
1994
Journal: 
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society
Volume: 
30
Issue: 
3
Pages: 
543-573
Keywords: 
Doubt, Scepticism, Knowledge
Abstract: 
Argues that philosopher C.S. Peirce's interpretation of the genesis of the search for knowledge can provide a winning strategy with respect to the sceptical problem. Origin of man's search for knowledge according to Aristotle; Discussion on a Platonic understanding of the desire to know; Ways of obtaining the cessation of doubt, the settlement of opinion and the acquisition of a state of mental ataraxia.
ISSN: 
00091774
Language: 
English