Science and an African Logic
285 pages, 9 line drawings, 7 tables 6 x 9
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2001
Cloth $65.00
ISBN: 9780226853895
Published December 2001
Paper $22.00
ISBN: 9780226853918
Published December 2001
Acknowledgments Part One: Introduction 1. Disconcertment 2. Toward Generative Critique Part Two: Numbering 3. A Comparative Study of Yoruba and English Number Systems 4. Decomposing Displays of Numbers 5. Toward Telling the Social Lives of Numbers Part Three: Generalizing 6. Learning to Apply Numbers to Nature 7. Decomposing Generalizing as "Finding Abstract Objects" 8. Toward Generalization as Transition Part Four: Certainty 9. Two Consistent Logics of Numbering 10. Decomposing Predicating-Designating as Representing 11. Embodied Certainty and Predicating-Designating Notes References Index
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