The Incomplete Universe: Totality, Knowledge, and Truth

by Patrick Grim

Book Overview

The central claim of this powerful philosophical exploration is that within any logic we have, there can be no coherent notion of all truth or of total knowledge. Grim examines a series of logical paradoxes and related formal results to reveal their implications for contemporary epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. He reaches the provocative conclusion that, if the universe is thought of in terms of its truths, it is essentially...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262519119
• ISBN13: 9780262519113
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher