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Reasoning at the Frontier of Knowledge: Introductory Essay

Author : Emiliano Ippoliti

Published in: Heuristic Reasoning

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The advancement of knowledge is the big goal in human understanding. To get it, we often have to push beyond the frontier of knowledge, where our understanding dissolves and where new, strange entities appear. These require bold explorations and the consequent discoveries are not idle mind games, but crucial tools for our future life. And to have a method for carrying out these explorations is essential.

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Footnotes
1
See [7, pp. 326–332] and [8, pp. 16–72] for a detailed discussion of this point.
 
2
See in particular [2, 10‐21].
 
3
On the role of the term and concept of “mavericks” I would like to thank David Nicholson for his valuable advice.
 
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Metadata
Title
Reasoning at the Frontier of Knowledge: Introductory Essay
Author
Emiliano Ippoliti
Copyright Year
2015
Book
Heuristic Reasoning

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-09158-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-09159-4

Copyright Year: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09159-4_1

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