Everything, more or less: A defence of generality relativism (Oxford Philosophical Monographs) 9780191030369, 9780198719649, 0191030368

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Everything, more or less: A defence of generality relativism (Oxford Philosophical Monographs)
9780191030369, 9780198719649, 0191030368

Almost no systematic theorizing is generality-free. Scientists test general hypotheses; set theorists prove theorems abo

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Covering 13.8 billion years in some 100 pages, a calculatedly concise, wryly intelligent history of everything, from the

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Covering 13.8 billion years in some 100 pages, a calculatedly concise, wryly intelligent history of everything, from the

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From Socrates to Thoreau, most philosophers, moralists, and religious leaders have seen frugality as a virtue and have a

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From Socrates to Thoreau, most philosophers, moralists, and religious leaders have seen frugality as a virtue and have a

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Everyone agrees that discrimination can be a grave moral wrong. Yet this consensus masks fundamental disagreements about

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Everyone agrees that discrimination can be a grave moral wrong. Yet this consensus masks fundamental disagreements about

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The Critical Imagination is a study of metaphor, imaginativeness, and criticism of the arts. Since the eighteenth centur

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Vagueness is the study of concepts that admit borderline cases: the property of being bald is vague because there are pe

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There is not one but many ways to picture the world--Australian "x-ray" pictures, cubish collages, Amerindian

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