Uncountable : a philosophical history of number and humanity from antiquity to the present / David N...
Uncountable : a philosophical history of number and humanity from antiquity to the present / David N...
Uncountable : a philosophical history of number and humanity from antiquity to the present / David Nirenberg and Ricardo L. Nirenberg.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2021.
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G 2021/2181
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English
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420 pages ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: Playing with Pebbles -- World War Crisis -- The Greeks: A Protohistory of Theory -- Plato, Aristotle, and the Future of Western Thought -- Monotheism's Math Problem -- From Descartes to Kant: An Outrageously Succinct History of Philosophy -- What Numbers Need: Or, When Does 2 + 2 = 4?...
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2021.
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Illinois
Date Published
2021.
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"From the time of Pythagoras, we have been tempted to treat numbers as the ultimate or only truth. This book tells the history of that habit of thought. But more, it argues that the logic of counting sacrifices much of what makes us human, and that we have a responsibility to match the objects of our attention to the forms of knowledge that do them...
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Uncountable : a philosophical history of number and humanity from antiquity to the present / David Nirenberg and Ricardo L. Nirenberg.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-405) and index.
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G 2021/2181
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74VKaLNxRaEb
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022664698X
9780226646985
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510
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991024430125002626
