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Language: en
Pages: 597
Authors: John J. Cleary
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-21 - Publisher: BRILL

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John Cleary here explores the role which the mathematical sciences play in Aristotle's philosophical thought, especially in his cosmology, metaphysics, and epis
Mathematics in Aristotle
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Thomas Heath
Categories: Mathematics, Ancient
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: St. Augustine's Press

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This is a detailed exposition of Aristotelian mathematics and mathematical terminology. It contains clear translations of all the most important passages on mat
An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics
Language: en
Pages: 316
Authors: J. Franklin
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-09 - Publisher: Springer

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Mathematics is as much a science of the real world as biology is. It is the science of the world's quantitative aspects (such as ratio) and structural or patter
Aristotle on Mathematical Infinity
Language: en
Pages: 142
Authors: Theokritos Kouremenos
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag

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Aristotle was the first not only to distinguish between potential and actual infinity but also to insist that potential infinity alone is enough for mathematics
The Continuous, the Discrete and the Infinitesimal in Philosophy and Mathematics
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: John L. Bell
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-09 - Publisher: Springer Nature

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This book explores and articulates the concepts of the continuous and the infinitesimal from two points of view: the philosophical and the mathematical. The fir