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Thomas Harriot on Combinations

Ian Maclean (2005)

Revue d'histoire des mathématiques

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Thomas Harriot (1560?–1621) is known today as an innovative mathematician and a natural philosopher with wide intellectual horizons. This paper will look at his interest in combinations in three contexts: language (anagrams), natural philosophy (the question of atomism) and mathematics (number theory), in order to assess where to situate him in respect of three current historiographical debates: 1) whether there existed in the late Renaissance two opposed mentalities, the occult and...

Incommensurability and dynamic conceptual structures

Hanne Andersen (2004)

Philosophia Scientiae

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One important problem concerning incommensurability is to explain how theories that are incommensurable can nevertheless compete. In this paper I shall briefly review Kuhn’s account of the difference between revolutionary and non-revolutionary conceptual developments. I shall argue that his taxonomic approach and the no-overlap principle it entails does not suffice to distinguish between revolutionary and non-revolutionary developments. I shall show that his approach builds mainly on...

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Luce Brotcorne, Clarisse Dhaenens, Said Hanafi, Talbi El-Ghazali (2009)

RAIRO - Operations Research

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