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Boole-De Morgan Correspondence: 1842-1864 (Book Review), Calvin Jongsma May 1985

Boole-De Morgan Correspondence: 1842-1864 (Book Review), Calvin Jongsma

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Reviewed Title: The Boole-De Morgan Correspondence: 1842-1864 by Gordon C. Smith. London, New York (Oxford University Press, Clarendon). 1982. 156 pp.


Mathematics: The Loss Of Certainty (Book Review), Calvin Jongsma Jan 1983

Mathematics: The Loss Of Certainty (Book Review), Calvin Jongsma

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Morris Kline was a contentious mathematician and author, documenting (as he saw it) both the deficiencies of mid-twentieth-century reformist trends in mathematics education and formalist views of the foundations (and practice) of mathematics. This brief introduction to a discussion of Kline's 1980 book and its mixed reception by the mathematics community provides a context for assessing his ideas as part of his overall views on the nature of mathematics.


Reformed Theological Ethics Of Speech Communication, Charles Veenstra Oct 1981

Reformed Theological Ethics Of Speech Communication, Charles Veenstra

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This project develops and applies a Biblically-based Reformed theological system of ethics for speech communication.

The dissertation includes a review of literature on ethics in speech communication and indicates that: 1) ethics is a significant concern in the field of speech communication, 2) no single normative ethical theory dominates, 3} each normative ethical theory currently advocated faces significant problems, 4) critical pieces applying normative standards are few, 5) little attention is given to ethics of religious speakers or broadcasters, and 6) the normative ethical theory based in Reformed theology, which is the subject of this dissertation, is undeveloped in the …


Axiomatic Structure And The Method Of Analysis: Shifting Styles In The History Of Mathematics, Calvin Jongsma Jun 1979

Axiomatic Structure And The Method Of Analysis: Shifting Styles In The History Of Mathematics, Calvin Jongsma

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Closer Look At "Serviceable Insight": A Discussion Paper, John Van Dyk Aug 1977

Closer Look At "Serviceable Insight": A Discussion Paper, John Van Dyk

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No abstract provided.