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... Plato to Leodamas of Thasos , but it must have been in use much earlier . The method of reductio ad absurdum is a variety of analysis . Aristotle describes this in various ways , as reductio ad absurdum , proof per impossibile or proof ...
... Plato to Leodamas of Thasos , but it must have been in use much earlier . The method of reductio ad absurdum is a variety of analysis . Aristotle describes this in various ways , as reductio ad absurdum , proof per impossibile or proof ...
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... Plato was an enthusiastic devotee of mathematics and astron- omy : " let no one destitute of geometry enter " ( åyewμétpntos undels eloiro ) , said the inscription over the door of his school . In as- tronomy he is said to have set it ...
... Plato was an enthusiastic devotee of mathematics and astron- omy : " let no one destitute of geometry enter " ( åyewμétpntos undels eloiro ) , said the inscription over the door of his school . In as- tronomy he is said to have set it ...
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... Plato declared that these circular motions were reducible to the rotation of solid globes all limited by spherical ... Plato's time , and Aris- tarchus of Samos about 280 B.C. endeavoured to account for all astronomical phenomena by a ...
... Plato declared that these circular motions were reducible to the rotation of solid globes all limited by spherical ... Plato's time , and Aris- tarchus of Samos about 280 B.C. endeavoured to account for all astronomical phenomena by a ...
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