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BL
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| Record Number
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581769
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b410988
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| Main Entry
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Verran, Helen.
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| Title & Author
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Science and an African logic /\ Helen Verran.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2001.
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viii, 277 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0226853896 (alk. paper)
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: 9780226853895 (alk. paper)
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: 0226853918 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780226853918 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-273) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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Yoruba (African people)-- Science.
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Yoruba (African people)-- Mathematics.
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Philosophy, Yoruba.
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Ethnoscience-- Nigeria.
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Logic-- Nigeria.
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Ethnomathematics-- Nigeria.
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| LC Classification
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DT515.45.Y67V47 2001
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