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Východiská a konzekvencie konštruktivizmu Nelsona Goodmana
The Starting Points and Consequences of Nelson Goodman’s Constructivism

Author(s): Lukáš Jeník
Subject(s): Epistemology, Philosophy of Science
Published by: Teologická fakulta Trnavskej univerzity
Keywords: Goodman; relativism; constructivism; pluralism; irrealism; ways of worldmaking;

Summary/Abstract: The problem of constructivism in the Nelson Goodman’s philosophy is one of the most influential antirealistic opinions in the realism – antirealism debate in the philosophy of science and contemporary metaphysics. The purpose of this article is to focus on some starting points (the problem of independence of reality and the problem of correspondence theory of truth) and his consequences (pluralism, relativism and way of worldmaking).

  • Issue Year: 2/2011
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 41-59
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Slovak
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