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In this paper I will attempt to consider the connection between epistemology and the sociology of knowledge by sketching the historical development and I want to show how both come to bear upon, in different ways, similar issues in mathematical and scientific knowledge. Mathematics in fact becomes a touchstone for these attempts as a constructivist epistemology that is pointedly expressed in mathematical cognition, substitutes traditional empiricism, nominalism and behaviorism thereby providing a basis for understanding that connection.
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Otte, M. (1994). Historiographical Trends in the Social History of Mathematics and Science. In: Gavroglu, K., Christianidis, J., Nicolaidis, E. (eds) Trends in the Historiography of Science. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 151. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3596-4_22
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