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Number as a Second-Order Concept

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

Peter Damerow
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin

Extract

My contribution will focus on a central issue of Yehuda Elkana's anthropology of knowledge — namely, the role of reflectivity in the development of knowledge. Let me therefore start with a quotation from Yehuda's paper “Experiment as a Second-Order Concept.”

Type
Homage to Yehuda Elkana
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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