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This work employs detailed historical narrative to argue about the establishment of factual knowledge both in science and in everyday practice. Accounts of gentlemen-philosophers are used to illustrate the study's claim that trust is imperative for constituting every kind of knowledge.

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/11/1995
      ISBN13: 9780226750194, 978-0226750194
      ISBN10: 0226750191
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      Anthropology History of ideas

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      Book Synopsis
      This work employs detailed historical narrative to argue about the establishment of factual knowledge both in science and in everyday practice. Accounts of gentlemen-philosophers are used to illustrate the study's claim that trust is imperative for constituting every kind of knowledge.

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