Methods of Knowledge: An Essay in Epistemology

Walter Smith

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A tour of the great theories of knowledge, from Locke and Hume to Kant and the absolute idealists, followed by Smith's own account of how sensation, feeling and will take part in knowing. A good bridge between the classics and later debates.

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