The End of Argument: Knowledge and the Internet.
The article reports that mathematicians have come to esteem rigorous argument as the most important feature of their subject. In turn, the example of mathematics has, over a long period, made rigorous argument an ideal in many other areas of inquiry--from the sciences to theology. According to Willi...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy & Rhetoric Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 154 - 182 |
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Pennsylvania State University Press
2000
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