The Epistemological Import of Euclidean Diagrams (in a non-Euclidean world)
In this paper I concentrate on Euclidean diagrams, namely on those diagrams that are licensed by the rules of Euclid’s plane geometry. I shall overview some philosophical stances that have recently been proposed in philosophy of mathematics to account for the role of such diagrams in mathematics, an...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2016-10-01
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| Series: | Kairos: Journal of Philosophy & Science |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/kjps-2016-0012 |