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Already this one's shaping up to be a banger. The argument is, in part, that while there may be revolutions in science in terms of *content*, the practices, the form, in which that content is discovered and delivered has been virtually continuous since the Greek discovery of deduction as an objectively valid logical form.

"We clear new fields, but we till them as we always did” (p. 4).
Jan 22, 2026 08:55AM
The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History (Ideas in Context, Series Number 51)

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