Science and an African Logic

Name: Science and an African Logic
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ISBN: 9780226853918

ISBN-10: 0226853918

ISBN-13: 9780226853918

Edition: 2001

Authors: Helen Verran

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Does two and two equal four? Ask someone and they should answer yes. An equation such as this seems the very definition of certainty, but is it? In this book, Helen Verran addresses precisely that question.

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 285
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction



Disconcertment



Toward Generative Critique



Numbering



A Comparative Study of Yoruba and English Number Systems



Decomposing Displays of Numbers



Toward Telling the Social Lives of Numbers



Generalizing



Learning to Apply Numbers to Nature



Decomposing Generalizing as "Finding Abstract Objects"



Toward Generalization as Transition



Certainty



Two Consistent Logics of Numbering



Decomposing Predicating-Designating as Representing



Embodied Certainty and Predicating-Designating


Notes


References


Index