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First published in 1986, Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft remains the only analysis of indigenous discourse about an African belief system undertaken from within the framework of Anglo-American analytical philosophy. Taking as its point of departure W. V. O. Quine's thesis about the indeterminacy of translation, the book investigates questions of Yoruba epistemology and of how knowledge is conceived in an oral culture.

Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft: Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy

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Paperback / softback by Barry Hallen , J. Olubi Sodipo

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    Publisher: Stanford University Press
    Publication Date: 01/08/1997
    ISBN13: 9780804728232, 978-0804728232
    ISBN10: 0804728232

    Number of Pages: 180

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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    First published in 1986, Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft remains the only analysis of indigenous discourse about an African belief system undertaken from within the framework of Anglo-American analytical philosophy. Taking as its point of departure W. V. O. Quine's thesis about the indeterminacy of translation, the book investigates questions of Yoruba epistemology and of how knowledge is conceived in an oral culture.

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