 There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain'.  An Introduction to Mathematics - 27. lappuseautors: Alfred North Whitehead - 1911 - 256 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | John Maynard Keynes - 2006 - 485 lapas
...be to analyse, so far as I can, the logical 1 Ci. Whitchead, Introduction - Mathematics, p. 27 ; " There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematics! calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely... | |
 | Brendan Kelly - 2007 - 106 lapas
...Over 50 years ago, the great American philosopher and mathematician, Alfred North Whitehead, observed, There is no more common error than to assume that,...result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain. Before we begin to use the processing power of the graphing calculator, we must become aware of some... | |
 | John Maynard Keynes - 2007 - 485 lapas
...analyse, so far as I can, the logical 1 Cf . Whitchead, IntrodticKm, to Mathematics, p. 27 : " There b no more common error than to assume that, because...the application of the result to some fact of nature ia absolutely certain," < basis of statistical modes of argument. This involves a double task. To mark... | |
 | Mark P. Silverman - 2008 - 379 lapas
...calculations. It is good, however, to bear in mind Alfred North Whitehead's wise observation that [239]: There is no more common error than to assume that,...result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain. Neither of the preceding two objections need be definitive when one recognizes the intrinsically quantum... | |
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