TY - BOOK AU - Cope,Kevin Lee TI - Criteria of certainty: truth and judgment in the English Enlightenment SN - 9780813117508 AV - PR448 .C758 1990 PY - 1990/// CY - Lexington, Ky. PB - University Press of Kentucky KW - English literature KW - 18th century KW - History and criticism KW - Philosophy, English KW - Philosophy in literature KW - Enlightenment KW - England KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; PART leaves RESTORATION OF CERTAINTY; 1. Rochester: Confrontational Systems; 2. Halifax: Deviational Systems; 3. Dryden: Incomprehensible Systems; PART II. CONFRONTATION WITH CERTAINTY; 4. Locke: Analogies of Conflict; 5. Swift: Residual Conflicts and Casual Systems; 6. Pope: Confronted Systems; 7. Smith: Systematic Reclamation of the Self; Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; 2; b N2 - British writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century initiated a critique of human knowledge unrivaled in both its scope and its enthusiasm. Author Kevin L. Cope now attempts to provide a coherent, evocative account of explanatory rhetoric in early modern Britain. Critics and historians, Cope argues, have done an admirable job of describing the details of the intellectual movements of this period but they have failed to examine the intellectual, social, and psychological implications of explanation itself. Criteria of Certainty makes up for this shortcoming by treating explanation as a co UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=938502&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -