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Harvard University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. |
| Publication Dates: | 2003. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 243 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0674004957 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0674012356 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | B812 |
| CLC: | B812.23 |
| Call Number: | B812.23/T724-1 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Stephen Toulmin argues that the potential for reason to improve our lives has been hampered by a serious imbalance in our pursuit of knowledge. The centuries-old dominance of rationality, a mathematical mode of reasoning modeled on theory and universal certainties, has diminished the value of reasonableness, a system of humane judgments based on personal experience and practice. To this day, academic disciplines such as economics and professions such as law and medicine often value expert knowledge and abstract models above the testimony of diverse cultures and the practical experience of in |