Nature and Limits of Human Knowledge

London, UK: Bookboon (2021)
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An introduction for students in the hard and social sciences, this brief book examines the nature and limits of human knowledge. Topics include how humans process information, how they cannot have certain knowledge, the limits to all human systems of definition including science, and the considerations of these limits.

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