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Some Mathematical “Images And Actions”

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Asphalt Children and City Streets

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After non-Euclidian geometry, and through its practical application in astronomy, after the new conceptions of space and time that resulted from the relativity revolution of Einstein and from the quantum revolution, after a humanization of science brought about by the collapse of vulgar determinism and vulgar materialism through thinkers such as Marx and Freud, it became impossible to live believing in the modernist paradigm dominated by scientism and positivism — corruptions of enlightenment.

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Mesquita, M., Restivo, S., D’Ambrosio, U. (2011). Some Mathematical “Images And Actions”. In: Mesquita, M., Restivo, S., D’Ambrosio, U. (eds) Asphalt Children and City Streets. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-633-5_3

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