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Schemes of Thought
New at IWP Books: Alfred North Whitehead, 1929, The Function of Reason. "It is by their emphasis on schemes of thought that the Greeks founded the various branches of science, which have remade civilization. A proposition which falls within a scientific scheme is accepted with surprisingly…Read the post →
The Circumstances of Truth
New at IWP Books: Alfred North Whitehead, 1929, The Function of Reason. "Newton’s formulae were not false: they were unguardedly stated. Einstein’s formulae are not…
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New at IWP Books: Alfred North Whitehead, 1929, The Function of Reason "The dawn of brilliant epochs is shadowed by the massive obscurantism of human…
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