Amicable Ambiguity

Auteur

Donald A. Crosby is professor of philosophy emeritus at Colorado State University.

Texte du rabat

Ambiguity has an important and often essential role to play in all areas of meaningful thought, expression, and claims to truth. Amicable Ambiguity explores areas of thought and experience where conceptual and discursive ambiguity can be the amicable friend of intelligibility and convincingness rather than their sworn enemy.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: The Ballast of Ambiguity

Chapter Two: Politics, Morality, and History

Chapter Three: Ambiguities of Nature

Chapter Four: Religion and Ambiguity

Chapter Five: Ambiguities of Technology

Chapter Six: Ambiguities of Claims to Knowledge

Chapter Seven: Ambiguities of Freedom

Chapter Eight: Ambiguities of Conviction

Bibliography

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