From Plato, through Descartes to W.V. Quine and Edmund Gettier, this concise introduction and reference guide explores the history of thinking about 'knowledge'

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Exploring what great philosophers have written about the nature of knowledge and about how we know what we know, this is a concise and accessible introduction t

A reference guide to the work of figures who have played an important role in the development of ideas about language. It includes 80 entries on individual thin

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