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Article: Hintikka, Jaakko. Socratic Epistemology: Explorations of Knowledge-Seeking by Questioning.(Book review)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
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- December 1, 2008
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HINTIKKA, Jaakko. Socratic Epistemology: Explorations of Knowledge-Seeking by Questioning. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. viii + 239 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $24.99--This is a rich and ambitious collection of ten papers drawn from Hintikka's work in various fields, ranging from epistemic logic and game-theoretic semantics, to exegetical work on historical figures. With great erudition and acute insight, he pursues what he calls the interrogative model of inquiry--which models information-seeking inquiry on a sequence of questions and answers--and its applicability to traditional epistemological problems, such as the nature of abduction, the role of the a ...
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Article: Hintikka, Jaakko. Analyses of Aristotle.(Book review)
The Review of Metaphysics;
March 1, 2006 ;
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...HINTIKKA, Jaakko. Analyses of Aristotle. Dordrecht ... sixth and final collection in the Jaakko Hintikka Selected Papers. Composed during three ... is to intrinsically involve ambiguity. Hintikka insists "that Aristotle may have been ...
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