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Wittgenstein's Doctrine of the Tyranny of Language
M. Engel
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paperback. Num Pages: 145 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 9. Weight in Grams: 550.
STEPHEN TOULMIN George Santayana used to insist that those who are ignorant of the history of thought are doomed to re-enact it. To this we can add a corollary: that those who are ignorant of the context of ideas are doom ed to misunderstand them. In a few self-contained fields such as pure mathematics, concepts and conceptual systems can perhaps be de tached from their historico-cultural situations; so that (for instance) a self-taught Ramanujan, living alone in India, mastered number theory to a point at which he could make major contributions to European mathematics. But elsewhere the situation is different ... Read more
STEPHEN TOULMIN George Santayana used to insist that those who are ignorant of the history of thought are doomed to re-enact it. To this we can add a corollary: that those who are ignorant of the context of ideas are doom ed to misunderstand them. In a few self-contained fields such as pure mathematics, concepts and conceptual systems can perhaps be de tached from their historico-cultural situations; so that (for instance) a self-taught Ramanujan, living alone in India, mastered number theory to a point at which he could make major contributions to European mathematics. But elsewhere the situation is different ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1976
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
145
Condition
New
Number of Pages
145
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789024711857
SKU
V9789024711857
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