Hume on space, geometry, and diagrammatic reasoning

DOI10.1007/S11229-012-0071-5MaRDI QIDQ375276zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Graciela De Pierris

Publication date 29 October 2013

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-012-0071-5

zbMATH Keywords

geometryinfinite divisibilitycontinuityarithmeticspacemanner of appearanceminima (visible and tangible)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

Recommendations

• Hume’s Skepticism and Inductivism Concerning Space and Geometry
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Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1852855 (Why is no real title available?)
• Eudoxos and Dedekind: On the ancient Greek theory of ratios and its relation to modern mathematics
• Testing the Normality Assumption in the Tobit Model

Cited in

(4)

• Hume’s View of Geometry
• Hume on the social construction of mathematical knowledge
• The limits of understanding and the understanding of limits: David Hume's mathematical sources
• Hume’s Skepticism and Inductivism Concerning Space and Geometry

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