188 Pages
by
Routledge
187 Pages
by
Routledge
187 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1985, Practical Inferences describes how practical inferences are used. Starting with relatively simple inference patterns exhibited in everyday prudential decisions, the author extends a basic structural framework to the more complex inferences used in assessing probabilities, and finally to moral inferences. In this way what have been regarded as disparate activities are... Read more
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Deliberation, Justification and Explanation 3. The Inferential Relation 4. Cognitivist Reformulations 5. Assimilation to Deductive Inferences 6. Varieties of Practical Inferences 7. Moral Inferences Notes Name Index Subject Index
Biography
D. S. Clarke, Jr
