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Does two and two equal four? Ask someone and they should answer yes. An equation such as this seems the very definition of certainty, but is it? Helen Verran describes how she went from the conclusion that logic and maths are culturally relative, to a new understanding of all generalizing logic.

Science and an African Logic

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 15 December 2001
      ISBN-13 9780226853918
      978-0226853918
      ISBN-10 0226853918
      Also in:
      Mathematics Philosophy of mathematics Anthropology Society and culture: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Does two and two equal four? Ask someone and they should answer yes. An equation such as this seems the very definition of certainty, but is it? Helen Verran describes how she went from the conclusion that logic and maths are culturally relative, to a new understanding of all generalizing logic.

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