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1."... of Saint Victor) and his contemporaries (like Gower in his Confessio Amantis), where the divisions of knowledge and the three branches of philosophy--theology, physics, and mathematics--and their relations to the three social estates are treated."

Source:  FRIEDMAN, JOHN B. "CHAUCER AND THE UNIVERSE OF LEARNING" Journal of English and Germanic Philology 99.2 Apr. 1 2000: 255

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2." MAJOR INTERESTS: Philosophy and History of Mathematics; Science and Technology in China and Europe; Contemporary French Philosophy of Science; Logic; Philosophy of Language."

Source:  Deutsch, Eliot. "THE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I: A PROFILE" Philosophy East and West 50.1 Jan. 1 2000

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3."... History of Philosophy, vol. 4, Descartes to Leibniz (Westminster, Md.: Newman, 1958), 129. (20.) Newton, Mathematical Principles, 546. (21.) P. M. Heimann, "'Nature Is a Perpetual Worker': Newton's Aether and Eighteenth-Century Natural Philosophy,"..."

Source:  ENGLISH, JOHN C. "John Hutchinson's Critique of Newtonian Heterodoxy" Church History 68.3 Sept. 1 1999: 581

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4." 2. Mr. Brock mentions the failure of analytical philosophy to make any progress in the field of ethics and political philosophy, until John Rawls, in A Theory of Justice, introduced concepts and theories from the mathematical discipline of decision theory."

Source:  Brock, Horace W. ""The Aesthetics of Music"" New Criterion 17.7 Mar. 1 1999: 31-32

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5." 17 Philosophical Investigations (Oxford: Blackwell, 1958), I.23. 18 Wittgenstein, Culture and Value (Oxford: Blackwell, 1980), 27. In the Philosophical Investigations I.23 Wittgenstein also compares the changes in language-games to changes in mathematics."

Source:  Brummer, Vincent. "How rational is rational theology? A reply to Mikael Stenmark" Religious Studies 35.1 Mar. 1 1999: 89-98

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6." Steeped in the philosophy and popular writings of French mathematician Henri Poincare, Duchamp "understood the mathematics of non-Euclidean geometry and higher dimensionality in a far..."

Source:  PETERSON, IVARS. "An Artist's Timely Riddles" Science News 157.1 Jan. 1 2000: 8

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7." Cardano, who achieved fame as a mathematician, astrologer, magician, encyclopedist, and autobiographer, was also a teacher and the author of some two hundred works in medicine, mathematics, philosophy, mechanics, and music."

Source:  MAGNER, LOIS N. "The Clock and the Mirror: Girolamo Cardano and RenaissanceMedicine" History: Review of New Books 27.1 Sept. 22 1998: 34-35

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8."... was a Popperian philosophy of science and, typically, a naive version of it. We had been taught to state a problem in the language of mathematics and to solve it in the same language."

Source:  BOEHM, STEPHAN,KIRZNER, ISRAEL M.,KOPPL, ROGER,LAVOIE, DON,LEWIN, PETER,TORR, CHRISTOPHER,MOSS, LAURENCE S. "Remembrance and Appreciation Roundtable Professor Ludwig M. Lachinann" American Journal of Economics and Sociology 59.3 July 1 2000: 367

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9." MacNeal argues that such persistent linguistic confusion derives ultimately from our cultural inheritance of mathematics from the Ancient Greeks, who refused on philosophical grounds to work with "nothing", despite the later superficial overlay of the Hindu-Arabic "zero" on our fundamentally Western Graeco-Roman culture."

Source:  GOUGH, JOHN. "REVIEW OF MATHSEMANTICS" ETC.: A Review of General Semantics 57.2 June 22 2000: 174

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10." These philosophical practices fall short because they do not recognize that seeing is nor enough: although nature may be "open to our gaze," it cannot be comprehended except through the language and knowledge of mathematics."

Source:  SPILLER, ELIZABETH A. "Reading through Galileo's Telescope. Margaret Cavendish and the Experience of Reading [*]" Renaissance Quarterly 53.1 Mar. 22 2000: 192

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11."... also Lonie. (36.) "In philosophia eousque progressus est, ut quinque certaminum athleta dici possit: Naturalia, moralia, mathematica, liberales disciplinas, artiumque omnium peritiam callebat."

Source:  SIRAISI, NANCY. "Anatomizing the Past: Physicians and History in Renaissance Culture [*]" Renaissance Quarterly 53.1 Mar. 22 2000: 1

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12." It is a book for specialists in the sense that interest in seventeenth-century philosophy of mathematics must be confined to a few."

Source:  PIERSON, STUART. "Squaring the Circle: The War between Hobbes and Wallis" History: Review of New Books 28.3 Mar. 22 2000: 116

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13." Sad to say, Julian Brown's Minds, Machines, and the Multiverse errs on the opposite extreme, providing more history, circuit diagrams, mathematics and philosophical speculation than I was able to keep straight."

Source:  ROUSH, WADE. "Quantum Incoherence" Technology Review (Cambridge, Mass.) 103.4 July 1 2000: 115

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14." Thus, Behe contends, these systems could not evolve by stepwise progressions and instead were created by an "intelligent designer." William Dembski, who holds doctorates in mathematics and philosophy, also defends intelligent design, or ID, as a scientific theory to replace Darwinian evolution."

Source:  Johnson, Norman A. "Design Flaw" American Scientist 88.3 May 1 2000: 274

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15." The last surviving member of a centuries-old family of Romanian Rabbis, he had studied, among other things, music, physics, mathematics, philosophy, and medicine."

Source:  Bernard-Donals, Michael,Glejzer, Richard. "Between Witness and Testimony: Survivor Narratives and the Shoah" College Literature 27.2 Mar. 22 2000: 1

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16." They appeared to have changed their perceptions, moving toward a more student-centered philosophy, and to voice a view of mathematics as something that can be developed by students themselves."

Source:  Friel, Susan N.,Carboni, Lisa W. "Using Video-Based Pedagogy in an Elementary Mathematics Methods Course" School Science and Mathematics 100.3 Mar. 1 2000: 118

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17." The philosophy of mathematics arises easily from its simplest uses."

Source:  GERSON, MARK. "The right choice for schools" Public Interest Mar. 22 2000: 121

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18." The verity of the assertion is analyzed in Niccolo Guicciardini's Reading the Principia: The Debate on Newton's Mathematical Methods for Natural Philosophy from 1687 to 1736 (Cambridge, $80), which offers a careful..."

Source:  . "Did Nike Say to `Just Do It" American Scientist 88.2 Mar. 1 2000: 173

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19." And Dean of Students James Carey admits that the curriculum, which includes two years of Greek, French, mathematics and philosophy, is by mainstream academic standards woefully bereft..."

Source:  Hanson, Gayle M.B. "Time to Snap Out of Victim Culture" Insight on the News 16.1 Jan. 3 2000: 16

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20."... here - along with Newton's "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica," which students at St. John's are required to read."

Source:  Wagner, Arlo. "Class of '99 gives food for thought" Washington Times Jan. 6 2000: 1

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21." Studies in philosophy and physiology sparked his interest in investigating the complex circuitry of the brain. "I was lured in by the hope of applying mathematical tools to biology and got captivated by the biology itself," he says."

Source:  Schultz, Stacey. "Marc Tessier-Lavigne" U.S. News & World Report 128.1 Jan. 3 2000: 69

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22." Though Atheism and Theism offers no "knock-down arguments" for either side, both philosophers do a great job of discussing Atheism and Theism in the light of modern science, philosophy, theology, biblical studies, and mathematics."

Source:  Allen, Norm R., Jr. "ATHEIST VS. THEIST" Free Inquiry 19.4 Sept. 22 1999: 66

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23." Kevin Levin recently moved from the Washington area to teach philosophy at the Alabama School of Mathematics and Science in Mobile, Ala. ****BOX UPCOMING EVENTS VIRGINIA Today: Author and historian Edward A. Miller..."

Source:  Levin, Kevin. "Davis used creative tack at court-martial" Washington Times Feb. 6 1999: 3

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24."... traditions leading to modern econometrics--economic theory, descriptive historicist statistics, mathematical statistics (from biometrics), and probability calculus; and the "relative crisis" in contemporary social philosophy, public policy, and statistical theory and practice."

Source:  SMALDONE, JOSEPH P. "The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of StatisticalReasoning" Perspectives on Political Science 28.4 Sept. 22 1999: 238

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25."... Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.[3] In his hip model, Dr Neumann describes the hip abductor force (HAF) and joint reaction force (JRF) as being essentially parallel."

Source:  Krebs, David E,McGibbon, Chris A,Fagerson, Timothy L. "Invited Commentary" Physical Therapy 79.12 Dec. 1 1999: 1174

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