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Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits.
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Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits.

Publication details: George Allen & Unwin,1948,

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The dustjacket, of which this is a very bright example, has, as usual, a section of a War Office map on its verso (here of Indonesia).Russell's 'last major contribution to philosophy, [...] in which he developed at length his view that certainty in human knowledge was impossible and that the best to be hoped for was the probable truth afforded us by what he called "postulates of scientific inference"' (ODNB).

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FIRST EDITION, pp. 538, [2, ads], 8vo, original green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge green, dustjacket slightly rubbed and nicked at extremities, nick at centre of lower joint-fold, very good

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