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Hume's distinction between two types of reasoning
The word moral in our language means right action. Hume does use the same meaning (1), hence his work An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals. But he also uses the word moral in two more ...
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Is The Knowledge of Zero Qualitatively Different From The Knowledge of Infinity?
The mathematical number 0 is quite intuitive it's 1 less than 1, sits between the positive and the negative numbers, it's the neutral element of addition. In other words it actually quite neatly fits.
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Is The Knowledge of Zero Qualitatively Different From The Knowledge of Infinity?
Zero knowledge and infinite knowledge are qualitatively very different, but both lie within certain conceptual boundaries that represent finality and absoluteness. This difference between absolute ...
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Is The Knowledge of Zero Qualitatively Different From The Knowledge of Infinity?
In mathematics “zero” and “infinity” are two totally different concepts.
Zero is a number from number theory, the neutral element of
addition. While infinity is the type of non-finite cardinal
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Is The Knowledge of Zero Qualitatively Different From The Knowledge of Infinity?
Form an historical point of view, there is a difference.
The zero number is a quite peculiar concept.
If originally humans introduced counting numbers to count objects into bags, flocks,armies... the ...
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