Lines of thought : central concepts in cognitive psychology /
How can we think about maths, despite the immateriality of numbers, sets, and other mathematical entities? How are we able to think about what might have happened if history had taken a different turn? Questions like these turn up in nearly every part of cognitive science and are central to our huma...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | How can we think about maths, despite the immateriality of numbers, sets, and other mathematical entities? How are we able to think about what might have happened if history had taken a different turn? Questions like these turn up in nearly every part of cognitive science and are central to our human position of having limited knowledge of what is true. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 304 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195183054 0195183053 9780199720323 0199720320 |