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Science and an African logic

Author: Helen Verran
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Helen Verran
ISBN: 0226853896 9780226853895 0226853918 9780226853918
OCLC Number: 46884163
Description: viii, 277 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Disconcertment --
Toward Generative Critique --
Numbering --
A Comparative Study of Yoruba and English Number Systems --
Decomposing Displays of Numbers --
Toward Telling the Social Lives of Numbers --
Generalizing --
Learning to Apply Numbers to Nature --
Decomposing Generalizing as "Finding Abstract Objects" --
Toward Generalization as Transition --
Certainty --
Two Consistent Logics of Numbering --
Decomposing Predicating-Designating as Representing --
Embodied Certainty and Predicating-Designating.
Responsibility: Helen Verran.
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