Dancing with absurdity : your most cherished beliefs (and all your others) are probably wrong
& LtI>Dancing with Absurdity & lt/I> explores the limitations of knowledge and argues that neither reasoning nor direct observation can be trusted. Not only are they unreliable sources, they do not even justify assigning probabilities to claims about what we can know. This position, called radical skepticism, has intrigued philosophers since before the birth of Christ, yet nobody has been able to refute it. & ltBR> Fred Leavitt uses two unique methods of presentation. First, he supports abstract arguments with summaries of real-life examples from many and varied fields, which make the arguments muc
eBook, English, 2015
Peter Lang Publishing, New York, 2015