Adaptive Knowing: Epistemology from a Realistic Standpoint

by James K. Feibleman

The acquisition of knowledge is not a single unrelated occasion but rather an adaptive process in which past acquisitions modify present and future ones. In Part I of this essay in epistemology it is argued that coping with knowledge is not a passive affair but dynamic and active, involving its continuance into the stages of assimilation and deployment. In Part II a number of specific issues are raised and discussed in order to explore the dimensions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9024718902
• ISBN13: 9789024718900
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"