{"product_id":"aporetics-nicholas-rescher-9780822960577","title":"Aporetics: Rational Deliberation in the Face of Inconsistency","description":"The word apory stems from the Greek aporia, meaning impasse or perplexing difficulty. In \u003ci\u003eAporetics, \u003c\/i\u003e Nicholas Rescher defines an apory as a group of individually plausible but collectively incompatible theses. Rescher examines historic, formulaic, and systematic apories and couples these with aporetic theory from other authors to form this original and comprehensive survey. Citing thinkers from the pre-Socratics through Spinoza, Hegel, and Nicolai Hartmann, he builds a framework for coping with the complexities of divergent theses, and shows in detail how aporetic analysis can be applied to a variety of fields including philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, logic, and intellectual history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRescher's in-depth examination reveals how aporetic inconsistency can be managed through a plausibility analysis that breaks the chain of inconsistency at its weakest link by deploying right-of-way precedence based on considerations of cognitive centrality. Thus while involvement with cognitive conflicts and inconsistencies are pervasive in human thought, aporetic analysis can provide an effective means of damage control.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicholas Rescher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822960575\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822960577\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/24\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Nicholas Rescher","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926546874623,"sku":"9780822960577","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_095a41e9-5b0e-49e2-8a87-928d86bfcb8a.jpg?v=1681083675","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/aporetics-nicholas-rescher-9780822960577","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}