Aporetics

Download or read book Aporetics written by Nicholas Rescher and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2009 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rescher defines an apory as a group of individually plausible but collectively incompatible theses. Citing thinkers from the pre-Socratics through Spinoza, Hegel, and Nicolai Hartmann, he builds a framework for coping with the complexities of divergent theses, and shows in detail how aporetic analysis can be applied to a variety of fields including philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, logic, and intellectual history.