Kirjahaku

Criteriology is the normative science of substantive, empirical judgment that discovers and articulates the standards for warranted belief concerning contingent matters of fact. In this study, the formal epistemology and cognitive theory developed in the earlier volumes of this treatise are used to articulate a completed Criteriology, one that applies those earlier results to specific, concrete contexts involving both spontaneous judgment and rational belief.

Subtitled "An Introduction to Material Modal Logic," this monograph explores modal logic from a realist perspective on possibility that, following Aristotle and Kant, grounds possibility in actuality and thus provides a material, rather than merely formal, interpretation of basic modal notions. It then applies this material modal logic to the understanding of contingent being and the existence of a necessary being serving as "the ground of all possibility."

The author completes this series with a discussion of Hermeneutics, the theory of interpretation. Building on the account of intuitive knowledge offered in Volume VIA, this volume applies these ideas to two basic areas: history, on the one hand, and art and literary criticism on the other. The author addresses the Problem of Bias, the Hermeneutic Circle, and the differences history and the social sciences, on the one hand, and the natural sciences on the other. The author concludes with a discussion of the nature and ends of education as it relates to theoretical inquiry.