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... mathematics. All that mathematics can do is to assureus that a statementAis equivalent tostatements B,C,D,or is one ... mathematical demonstration, provesthe feebleness of the human mind as a logical machine. For it required the PREFACE ...
... mathematics. All that mathematics can do is to assureus that a statementAis equivalent tostatements B,C,D,or is one ... mathematical demonstration, provesthe feebleness of the human mind as a logical machine. For it required the PREFACE ...
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... mathematical astronomer this feebleness ofthe human intellect, andno one is more conscious of thelimitations of the logicalprocess called mathematics, which even nowhas not solved directly theproblem ofonly three bodies. These ...
... mathematical astronomer this feebleness ofthe human intellect, andno one is more conscious of thelimitations of the logicalprocess called mathematics, which even nowhas not solved directly theproblem ofonly three bodies. These ...
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... mathematical conception tofacilitate the construction of tables forpredicting the placesofthe heavenly bodies. Aristotle (384322 B.C.) summedup thestate of astronomical knowledge in histime, andheld theearthto be fixed in the centre of ...
... mathematical conception tofacilitate the construction of tables forpredicting the placesofthe heavenly bodies. Aristotle (384322 B.C.) summedup thestate of astronomical knowledge in histime, andheld theearthto be fixed in the centre of ...
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