FROM CAUSES TO RELATIONS: THE EMERGENCE OF A NON-ARISTOTELIAN CONCEPT OF GEOMETRICAL PROOF OUT OF THE QUAESTIO DE CERTITUDINE MATHEMATICARUM
Insofar as many Renaissance thinkers regard Aristotelian philosophy of science as the framework for their understanding of mathematics and its proofs, they consider geometrical proofs as syllogisms using causes. Furthermore, they identify geometrical proofs as demonstrationes potissimae, which are a...
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Universitatea de Vest Vasile Goldis din Arad
2012-11-01
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| Series: | Societate şi Politică |
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| Online Access: | http://www.uvvg.ro/socpol/docs/2012-2/3.%20Schottler.pdf |