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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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