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Helen Verran

Science and an African Logic

285 pages, 9 line drawings, 7 tables  6 x 9  © 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
Awards
  • Ludwik Fleck Prize
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