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The Knowledge of the Known

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Adaptive Knowing
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It is the thesis of this chapter that the adjective ‘known’ adds nothing to our knowledge, and, by extension, that epistemology is very much less important than is currently believed.

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  1. W. V. Quine, Mathematical Logic (Cambridge, Mass., 1947, Harvard University Press), Chapter One, 4.

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  2. K. Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (London, 1959, Hutchinson), p. 40.

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© 1976 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands

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Feibleman, J.K. (1976). The Knowledge of the Known. In: Adaptive Knowing. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1032-0_8

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