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The law of logarithmic returns and its implications

Nicholas Rescher

pp. 275-287

Our knowledge of the real is inevitably the result of a belief-mediated grasp — or mis-grasp — of facts. Belief affords our only access to the knowledge of nature: our theories are the only feasible pathways to nature's laws. Kant was right: the "I think" is omnipresent in the cognitive domain — though in scientific contexts it generally comes into operation in the objectifying plural "we think". And this brings the characteristic mechanisms of mental operation upon the stage.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-5788-9_16

Full citation:

Rescher, N. (1997)., The law of logarithmic returns and its implications, in D. Ginev & R. S. Cohen (eds.), Issues and images in the philosophy of science, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 275-287.

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