Synthetica
Author: Simon Somerville Laurie
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 360
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Author: Simon Somerville Laurie
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 360
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 352
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sophia Roosth
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017-03
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 022644046X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the final years of the twentieth century, emigres from mechanical and electrical engineering and computer science resolved that if the aim of biology was to understand life, then making life would yield better theories than experimentation. Sophia Roosth, a cultural anthropologist, takes us into the world of these self-named synthetic biologists who, she shows, advocate not experiment but manufacture, not reduction but construction, not analysis but synthesis. Roosth reveals how synthetic biologists make new living things in order to understand better how life works. What we see through her careful questioning is that the biological features, theories, and limits they fasten upon are determined circularly by their own experimental tactics. This is a story of broad interest, because the active, interested making of the synthetic biologists is endemic to the sciences of our time."
Author: United States National Museum
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 378
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 762
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Published: 1892
Total Pages: 302
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Valentine Riley
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Published: 1892
Total Pages: 488
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 634
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA quarterly review of philosophy.
Author: PROF PAOLO. MUGNAI MANCOSU (PROF MASSIMO.)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023-05-18
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 0198876920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDoes syllogistic logic have the resources to capture mathematical proof? This volume provides the first unified account of the history of attempts to answer this question, the reasoning behind the different positions taken, and their far-reaching implications. Aristotle had claimed that scientific knowledge, which includes mathematics, is provided by syllogisms of a special sort: 'scientific' ('demonstrative') syllogisms. In ancient Greece and in the Middle Ages, the claim that Euclid's theorems could be recast syllogistically was accepted without further scrutiny. Nevertheless, as early as Galen, the importance of relational reasoning for mathematics had already been recognized. Further critical voices emerged in the Renaissance and the question of whether mathematical proofs could be recast syllogistically attracted more sustained attention over the following three centuries. Supported by more detailed analyses of Euclidean theorems, this led to attempts to extend logical theory to include relational reasoning, and to arguments purporting to reduce relational reasoning to a syllogistic form. Philosophical proposals to the effect that mathematical reasoning is heterogenous with respect to logical proofs were famously defended by Kant, and the implications of the debate about the adequacy of syllogistic logic for mathematics are at the very core of Kant's account of synthetic a priori judgments. While it is now widely accepted that syllogistic logic is not sufficient to account for the logic of mathematical proof, the history and the analysis of this debate, running from Aristotle to de Morgan and beyond, is a fascinating and crucial insight into the relationship between philosophy and mathematics.