Lines of Thought C

by Lance J. Rips

Lines of Thought addresses how we are able to think about abstract possibilities: How can we think about math, despite the immateriality of numbers, sets, and other mathematical entities? How are we able to think about what might have happened if history had taken a different turn? Questions like these turn up in nearly every part of cognitive science, and they are central to our human position of having only limited knowledge concerning what is or...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195183053
• ISBN13: 9780195183054
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"