Titlebook: Knowledge at the Boundaries; Nicholas Rescher Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Spring

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Book 2020 ideal systematization of our knowledge of totalities. The book affords novel perspectives regarding the thought of a widely appreciated philosopher. It is an original work aimed for readers interested in the theory of knowledge and philosophy of cognition..

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Default Reasoningin logic is a fall-back position in point of conclusion drawing—one to which we can appropriately take resort when things go wrong. But, of course, things ought not to go wrong in logic. So what is going on here? Default reasoning is a matter of presumption—of how we can take matters to stand in the

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Vagueness: A Variant Approachf indefiniteness and uncertainty. And since a term, ., that is vague will automatically have a complement, non-., that is so as well, there will inevitably be a nebulous region of ambivalent overlap between . situations and non-. situations. Here, matters seem to stand both ways, so that a paradoxic

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Leibniz and “The Liar” who included it in his register of seven paradoxes. On his telling, it posed the puzzle: “Does the person who says ‘I am lying’ actually lie?” (Also: “Does the witness who declares ‘I am perjuring myself’ thereby perjure himself?”) (See Aristotle, ., 180a35; ., 1146a71. Or again: . (Cicero, ., II,

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Mind Questionsin deliberations, experience feelings, make evaluations, and much else. The range of thought proceedings open to minds is vast in extent. But what of its depth? We shall return to this critical question, but must first address some others.

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