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SENSE NONSENSE AND SUBJECTIVITY - MARKUS GABRIE...

A leading German philosopher offers his most ambitious work yet on the nature of knowledge 
arguing that being wrong about things defines the human condition.   For millennia 
philosophers have dedicated themselves to advancing understanding of the nature of truth and
reality. In the process they have amassed a great deal of epistemological theory-knowledge
about knowledge. But negative epistemological phenomena  such as ignorance  falsity  illusion 
and delusion  are persistently overlooked. This is surprising given that we all know how
fallible humans are.   Sense  Nonsense  and Subjectivity replies with a theory of false thought
demonstrating that being wrong about things is part and parcel of subjectivity itself. For this
reason  knowledge can never be secured without our making claims that can always  in principle
be wrong. Even in successful cases  where we get something right and thereby gain knowledge 
the possibility of failure lingers with us. Markus Gabriel grounds this argument in a novel
account of the relationship between sense  nonsense  and subjectivity-phenomena that hang
together in the temporal unfolding of our cognitive lives.  While most philosophers continue to
theorize subjectivity in terms of conscious self-representation and the supposedly infallible
grip we have on ourselves as thinkers  Sense  Nonsense  and Subjectivity addresses the age-old
Platonic challenge to understand situations in which we do not get reality right. Adding a
stimulating perspective on epistemic failures to the work of New Realism  Gabriel addresses
long-standing ontological questions in an age where the line between the real and the fake is
increasingly blurred.

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