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Experience and its Modes - Softcover

Book 1 of 20: Cambridge Philosophy Classics

Oakeshott, Michael

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Synopsis

This classic work is here published for the first time in paperback in recognition of its enduring importance. Its theme is Modality: human experience recognized as a variety of independent, self-consistent worlds of discourse, each the invention of human intelligence, but each also to be understood as abstract and an arrest in human experience. The theme is pursued in a consideration of the practical, the historical and the scientific modes of understanding.

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Book Description

A reissue of a classic work, first published in 1933, which is a distinguished contribution to problems of philosophy of history and an acute reflection on the nature and distinctive features of different types of knowledge.

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This classic work, first published in 1933, is here published for the first time in paperback in recognition of its enduring importance. Its theme is Modality: human experience recognized as a variety of independent, self-consistent worlds of discourse, each the invention of human intelligence, but each also to be understood as abstract and an arrest in human experience. The theme is pursued in a consideration of the practical, the historical and the scientific modes of understanding.

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