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How Mathematics Is Rooted in Life
Mathematics is almost always an insider’s affair. But sometimes things happen within the mathematical community that have a relevance, and perhaps also an interest, beyond the tribe itself. The of the 1920s ...
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Mathematics and the Nature of Knowledge—An Introductory Essay
This book is a collection of essays on mathematics and the nature of knowledge. We claim that the mathematical sciences, mathematics, statistics and computing, are almost everywhere. In this introductory essay...
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Tarski, Truth, and Natural Languages
The first part of this chapter traces the history of the relationship between logic and linguistics with particular emphasis on the contributions of the Polish logicians and philosophers of science A. Tarski a...
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Changes of the Knowledge System and Their Implication for the Formative Stage of Scholars: Experiences in the Natural Sciences
In this chapter we review some recent trends in the natural and biomedical sciences related to issues of complexity and , and simulations, with particular reference to , and discuss the impact of these dev...
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Formal Semantics, Geometry, and Mind
Standard theory of grammar postulates the existence of two modules, one being a conceptual module which includes what is often referred to as knowledge of the world, one being a computational module which is c...
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Relationships Between the Social and the Natural Sciences
An integrated science and technology policy is both complex and urgent. We have gradually come to understand that the relationship between science and technology is not neat and linear: it is not the case of f...
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Remarks on the Science and Technology of Language
Language and logic are inseparably intertwined in the European intellectual tradition. It has not always been an easy relationship. There have always been issues of substance whether the two were friends or fo...
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On What There Is—Infinitesimals and the Nature of Numbers
This essay will be divided into three parts. In the first part we discuss the case of infinitesimals seen as a bridge between the discrete and the continuous. This leads in the second part to a discussion of t...
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The Miraculous Left Hand—On Leonardo Da Vinci and the Search for a Common Understanding of Man and Nature
Is a common approach to knowledge about man and nature possible? With Leonardo da Vinci as our starting point we will explore this question. Leonardo was much more than a painter; he was a sharp observer of ma...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Computational semantics: Steps towards “intelligent” text processing
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Computation theories: An axiomatic approach to recursion on general structures