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The Unknowable
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Author : W. J. Mander
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-18
The Unknowable written by W. J. Mander and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-18 with Philosophy categories.
W. J. Mander presents a history of metaphysics in nineteenth-century Britain. The story focuses on the elaboration of, and differing reactions to, the concept of the unknowable or unconditioned, first developed by Sir William Hamilton in the 1829. The idea of an ultimate but unknowable way that things really are in themselves may be seen as supplying a narrative arc that runs right through the metaphysical systems of the period in question. These thought schemes may be divided into three broad groups which were roughly consecutive in their emergence but also overlapping as they continued to develop. In the first instance there were the doctrines of the agnostics who developed further Hamilton's basic idea that fundamental reality lies for the great part beyond our cognitive reach. These philosophies were followed immediately by those of the empiricists and, in the last third of the century, the idealists: both of these schools of thought—albeit in profoundly different ways—reacted against the epistemic pessimism of the agnostics. Mander offers close textual readings of the main contributions to First Philosophy made by the key philosophers of the period (such as Hamilton, Mansel, Spencer, Mill, and Bradley) as well as some less well known figures (such as Bain, Clifford, Shadworth Hodgson, Ferrier, and John Grote). By presenting, interpreting, criticising, and connecting together their various contrasting ideas, this book explains how the three traditions developed and interacted with one another to comprise the history of metaphysics in Victorian Britain.
The Unknowable
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Author : Gregory J. Chaitin
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 1999-07-01
The Unknowable written by Gregory J. Chaitin and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-07-01 with Mathematics categories.
This essential companion to Chaitins highly successful The Limits of Mathematics, gives a brilliant historical survey of important work on the foundations of mathematics. The Unknowable is a very readable introduction to Chaitins ideas, and includes software (on the authors website) that will enable users to interact with the authors proofs. "Chaitins new book, The Unknowable, is a welcome addition to his oeuvre. In it he manages to bring his amazingly seminal insights to the attention of a much larger audience His work has deserved such treatment for a long time." JOHN ALLEN PAULOS, AUTHOR OF ONCE UPON A NUMBER
The Unknowable In Literature And Material Culture
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Author : Margot Irvine
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2019-10-08
The Unknowable In Literature And Material Culture written by Margot Irvine and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Literature strives to interpret and explain the unknown, and to propose ways in which to engage with it—even if, at least initially, these keys exist only in the realm of the imagination. This is one of the many important qualities that draw us to study literature, and to marvel at the creative understandings that it offers. However, many questions call for further exploration: how does something “unknowable”, unspeakable, become a subject that can be examined and debated? How have literary and scientific communities entered into the dialogue and exchange that are crucial to the consolidation of knowledge? By what processes can we come to know and understand that which remains hidden, undocumented, unspoken, poorly understood: the memories, secrets, “unknowable” and “unspeakable” truths of public and private human lives? Inspired by questions such as these, the contributors to this volume reflect on fin de siècle discourses around homosexuality and sexual “inversion”, on Émile Zola as seeker of concealed truths and figure of scandal, on the modes and crises of representing human experience in literary and visual forms, and on the dialogic space between self and other.
An Examination Of The Philosophy Of The Unknowable As Expounded By Herbert Spencer
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Author : William M. Lacy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883
An Examination Of The Philosophy Of The Unknowable As Expounded By Herbert Spencer written by William M. Lacy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with categories.
The Known The Unknown And The Unknowable In Financial Risk Management
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Author : Francis X. Diebold
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2010-04-19
The Known The Unknown And The Unknowable In Financial Risk Management written by Francis X. Diebold and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-19 with Business & Economics categories.
A clear understanding of what we know, don't know, and can't know should guide any reasonable approach to managing financial risk, yet the most widely used measure in finance today--Value at Risk, or VaR--reduces these risks to a single number, creating a false sense of security among risk managers, executives, and regulators. This book introduces a more realistic and holistic framework called KuU --the K nown, the u nknown, and the U nknowable--that enables one to conceptualize the different kinds of financial risks and design effective strategies for managing them. Bringing together contributions by leaders in finance and economics, this book pushes toward robustifying policies, portfolios, contracts, and organizations to a wide variety of KuU risks. Along the way, the strengths and limitations of "quantitative" risk management are revealed. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Ashok Bardhan, Dan Borge, Charles N. Bralver, Riccardo Colacito, Robert H. Edelstein, Robert F. Engle, Charles A. E. Goodhart, Clive W. J. Granger, Paul R. Kleindorfer, Donald L. Kohn, Howard Kunreuther, Andrew Kuritzkes, Robert H. Litzenberger, Benoit B. Mandelbrot, David M. Modest, Alex Muermann, Mark V. Pauly, Til Schuermann, Kenneth E. Scott, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and Richard J. Zeckhauser. Introduces a new risk-management paradigm Features contributions by leaders in finance and economics Demonstrates how "killer risks" are often more economic than statistical, and crucially linked to incentives Shows how to invest and design policies amid financial uncertainty
An Examination Of The Philosophy Of The Unknowable As Expounded By Herbert Spencer
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Author : William M. Lacy
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2025-07-20
An Examination Of The Philosophy Of The Unknowable As Expounded By Herbert Spencer written by William M. Lacy and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-07-20 with Fiction categories.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the public in good condition in order to preserve their cultural heritage.
The Unknowable God
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Author : Ignacio L. Götz
language : en
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Release Date : 2021-03-16
The Unknowable God written by Ignacio L. Götz and has been published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-16 with Religion categories.
Most contemporary Christians are polytheists. They believe in many gods—unawares, of course. There is a Father-god, depicted old and white-haired; there is a Son-god, middle-aged, identified with Jesus of Nazareth; and there is a Spirit-god, symbolized by a dove. Many artists have depicted this trinity, like El Greco, who painted his "The Trinity" in 1578. These three gods are believed to constitute only one divinity, but very few ordinary Christians could explain how this could be the case. This plurality of gods is the reason why Christianity is reviled by Jews and Muslims who affirm steadfastly the unicity of God and who ban any pictorial representation of the divinity. The very first Christians, the family and friends of Jesus, who were Jews, would not have held such a pagan belief, but their writings were destroyed by later adherents, so we lack the evidence to prove this.Christians claim that the Trinity has been revealed, but the fact is that such revelation is disproved by science and philosophy. So why not transcend this trinity in a contemplation of the One Unknowable God of all? Why not learn to live without knowing what God is, being satisfied with the belief that God is neither male nor female, neither triad nor monad, but simply the Divine Incognito?
Reflections On The Unknowable
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Author : Thomas Keating
language : en
Publisher: Lantern Books
Release Date : 2014-04-09
Reflections On The Unknowable written by Thomas Keating and has been published by Lantern Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-09 with Religion categories.
A distillation of over seventy years as a monastic and more than three decades of writing on centering prayer, Reflections on the Unknowable is Fr. Thomas Keating’s latest volume on how we might develop our intimacy with God and our experience of the Christian contemplative tradition. The first part of the book consists of a long interview with Fr. Thomas, in which he examines concepts of the divine‐including the astonishments, playfulness, and transformation available to the individual willing to open the door to God. The second section consists of thirty-one brief homilies, which range over topics as diverse as the Trinity and the message of Epiphany, spiritual evolution and cultivating interior silence, and the treasure of spiritual poverty and the beauty of chaos.
Voyage Into The Unknown Volume Four
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Author : Collin R. Skocik
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2012-10-16
Voyage Into The Unknown Volume Four written by Collin R. Skocik and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-16 with Fiction categories.
With the Earth destroyed by a supernova, the Space Star Silver Streak moves outward into the heavens, a self-sustaining starship housing thousands, settling colonies on other planets . . . moving outward into the deepest, unknown reaches of space . . . Twelve more stories in the epic odyssey of the Space Star Silver Streak. In this volume, the Hyron commander Mordrax takes over the Silver Streak, Science Officer Philippe Stargazer is possessed by the ghost of Hitler, a mobster blackmails Captain Cameron with a gun that can destroy a planet, First Officer Frank Johnson is assigned to transport a supply of gold into a wild west section of the galaxy, and Cameron nets Frank into a scheme to rob the ship's treasury. These are just a few of the amazing adventures in the latest volume of Voyage Into the Unknown!
The Unknowable
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Author : Semen Li︠u︡dvigovich Frank
language : en
Publisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press
Release Date : 1983
The Unknowable written by Semen Li︠u︡dvigovich Frank and has been published by Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Philosophy categories.