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Georg Cantor i idea jedności nauki
Georg Cantor and idea of the unity of science

Author(s): Jerzy Dadaczyński
Subject(s): Philosophy of Science
Published by: Copernicus Center Press
Keywords: Georg Cantor; set theory; unity of science;

Summary/Abstract: G. Cantor presented - in an unpublished paper (1884) - a vision of the unity of science. He argued all sciences can be reduced directly to the set theory. A source of this idea was for Cantor the unity of mathematics (on the basis of set theory). Cantor represented thesis about the unity of science irrespective of the representatives of positivism (E. Mach).

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 44
  • Page Range: 84-99
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish