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The Mathematical Philosophy of Contact

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

A. P. Hazen
A. P. Hazen
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne
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Philosophy , Volume 65 , Issue 252 , April 1990 , pp. 205 - 211
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1990

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References

1 Kline, A. David and Matheson, Carl A., ‘The Logical Impossibility of Collision’, Philisophy 62 (1987), 509–515.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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3 Whitehead's definitions in The Principles of Natural Knowledge and The Concept of Nature are slightly different, but this one will serve for our discussion.

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5 Malament, David, Journal of Philosophy 79 (1982), 523–534.Google Scholar

6 I should like to thank J.M. Davoren for discussion of an earlier version of this paper.