The search for knowledge : from desire to defence : hypothesis for the introduction of a Peirceisch interpretation of the genetic principle of the process of knowing as a fundamental orientation for a future gnoseology

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The aim of the thesis is to defend the hypothesis that an anti- Aristotelian interpretation of the genesis of the process of knowing provides an interesting and fruitful means to understand the human never-ending search for knowledge and to answer doubts concerning the reliability of human knowledge of external reality. Such statement requires an explanation

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Self-Knowledge as Self-Preservation?J. Thomas Cook - 1986 - In Marjorie Grene & Debra Nails (eds.), Spinoza And The Sciences. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 191--210.

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