The Human Worth of Rigorous Thinking: Essays and Addresses (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Cassius J. Keyser

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ISBN 10 : 1330218132 ISBN 13 : 9781330218136

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore how rigorous thinking gives meaning to science, math, and human freedom.

This collection surveys big ideas about why mathematics and science matter beyond utility. It flags the limits of proving infinite sets and shows how the spirit of inquiry can elevate our understanding, not just tally outcomes. The essays invite readers to see knowledge as a creative, liberating pursuit rather than a mere tool.

• Understand the tension between proving mathematical ideas and the broader quest for clarity and certainty.


• Learn how mathematical thought can illuminate philosophy, psychology, and theology without claiming final answers.


• Encounter thoughtful critiques of famous proofs and the idea that some truths go beyond measurable results.

This edition is ideal for readers curious about how rigorous thinking shapes big questions and everyday reasoning.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The foU owing fifteen essays and addresses have appeared, in the course of the last fifteen years, as articles in various scientific, literary, and philosophical journals. For permission to reprint I have to thank the editors and managers ofT he Columbia University Quarterly, The Columbia University Press, Science, The Educational Review, The Bookman, The Monist, The Hibbert Journal, and The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology andS cientific Methods. The title of the volume indicates its subject. The fact that one of the essays, the initial one, bears the same title is hardly more than a mere coincidence, for all of the discussions deal with the subject in question and nearly all of them deal with it directly, consciously, and in terms. In passii from essay to essay the attentive reader will notice a few repetitions of thought and possibly a few in forms of expression. Such reiterations, which owe their presence to the occasional character of the essays and to the aims and circumstances that originally controlled their composirion, may, it is hoped, be regarded by the charitable reader less as blemishes than as means of emphasizing important considerations. CASSIUS J. KEYSER. A pril 14, 1916.
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Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from The Human Worth of Rigorous Thinking: Essays and Addresses

The following fifteen essays and addresses have appeared, in the course of the last fifteen years, as articles in various scientific, literary, and philosophical journals. For permission to reprint I have to thank the editors and managers of The Columbia University Quarterly, The Columbia University Press, Science, The Educational Review, The Bookman, The Monist, The Hibbert Journal, and The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods.

The title of the volume indicates its subject. The fact that one of the essays, the initial one, bears the same title is hardly more than a mere coincidence, for all of the discussions deal with the subject in question and nearly all of them deal with it directly, consciously, and in terms.

In passing from essay to essay the attentive reader will notice a few repetitions of thought and possibly a few in forms of expression. Such reiterations, which owe their presence to the occasional character of the essays and to the aims and circumstances that originally controlled their composition, may, it is hoped, be regarded by the charitable reader less as blemishes than as means of emphasizing important considerations.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330218132
• ISBN 13: 9781330218136
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 330
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