Augustine on the Impossibility of Teaching.
The information-transference account of teaching takes it to be a process in which information is transferred from one person's mind to another's. Augustine argues that this is impossible, since in order to understand something the person who understands must come to see why it is so, and that is an...
| Published in: | Metaphilosophy Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 179 - 196 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jul98
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