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Most current work in epistemology deals with the evaluation and justification of information already acquired. In this book, Jaakko Hintikka instead discusses the more important problem of how knowledge is acquired in the first place. His model of information-seeking is the old Socratic method of questioning, which has been generalized and brought up-to-date through the logical theory of questions and answers that he has developed. Hintikka also argues that philosophers' quest for a definition of knowledge is ill-conceived and that the entire notion of knowledge should be replaced by the concept of information. He offers an analysis of the different meanings of the concept of information and of their interrelations. The result is a new and illuminating approach to the field of epistemology.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge

• Full title: Socratic Epistemology
• Subtitle: Explorations of Knowledge-Seeking by Questioning
• Author: Jaakko Hintikka
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 248
• EAN: 9780521851015
• ISBN: 0521851017
• ID: 02047033
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 456 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 155 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. September 2007

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