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  • Plural of obsolete ''mathematic''‘mathematics,’ from Old French ''mathematique'', from [[Latin]] ''(ars) mathematica'' ...lied to other [[disciplines]] such as [[physics]] and engineering (applied mathematics).
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  • ...tly concerned with abstract [[formal systems]], for instance, [[logic]], [[mathematics]], and the theoretical branches of [[computer science]], [[information theo ...[[Imperial College London]] and [[Tokyo University]], their Department of mathematics/statistics run under the faculty of natural science/science.
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  • In [[mathematics]] a '''corollary''' typically follows a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo ...tion]] that is to be proved); in remarkable cases that definition is of an abstraction that "ought to be supported by a proper postulate.".
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  • ...le additive [[consequences]] of such [[union]]s. The entire [[science]] of mathematics, the whole domain of [[philosophy]], the highest [[physics]] or [[chemistry ...for deliverance from the bondage of [[abstraction]], the [[slavery]] of [[mathematics]], and the [[relative]] blindness of [[mechanistic]] [[materialism]].
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  • ...be used [[abstractly]] for addition and subtraction on into your higher [[mathematics]] which are [[precise]] and yet abstract. This understanding cannot be give ...hen does an algebraic level of mathematics become [[essential]] and more [[abstraction]] yields a greater [[simplicity]].
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  • ...] is a field in which those truths discovered, in relation to the field of mathematics, are typically considerered of universal scope. Usage of the word ''truth'' ...]] holds universals to be the [[referent]]s of general terms, i.e. the ''[[abstraction|abstract]]'', nonphysical entities to which words like "doghood", "redness"
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  • ...ideas about [[universal proposition|universal]] [[knowledge]] claims in [[mathematics]], [[astronomy]], [[natural philosophy]], [[music]], and many other subject ...the sciences) they are the sort of questions which are foundational and [[Abstraction|abstract]] in nature, and which are not amenable to being answered by [[exp
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  • ...] the word ''αναλογια'' (''analogia'') originally meant [[Proportionality (mathematics)|proportionality]], in the mathematical sense, and it was indeed sometimes ...f the hand'', and the latter as ''the underside of the foot''. Analogy and abstraction are different cognitive processes, and analogy is often an easier one.
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  • ...that do not include the word "social". An example is [[quasi-empiricism in mathematics]] which is sometimes labelled social constructivism by those who see it as In the [[positivist]] sociology of [[Emile Durkheim]], a social fact is an abstraction external to the individual which constrains that individual's actions. In h
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  • ...solely on foundational issues, and the study of several resulting areas of mathematics came to be called [[mathematical logic]]. ...nderstood to mean any logical investigation that does not involve symbolic abstraction; it is this sense of 'formal' that is parallel to the received usages comin
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  • ...the precise expression of methodological information at various levels of abstraction, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-0 ...er science is considered by some to have a much closer relationship with [[mathematics]] than many scientific disciplines<ref name="Denning_cs_discipline" />. Ear
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  • ...le additive [[consequences]] of such [[union]]s. The entire [[science]] of mathematics, the whole domain of [[philosophy]], the highest [[physics]] or [[chemistry ...for deliverance from the bondage of [[abstraction]], the [[slavery]] of [[mathematics]], and the [[relative]] blindness of [[mechanistic]] [[materialism]].
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  • ...heres is still subordinated variously and often concurrently to reason, to mathematics and philosophy, to objects and forms, to the ‘real’ and the eternal, to ..., takes narrative product to the extremities of atomistic and instrumental abstraction.
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  • ...rating on entities and their interdependencies. Data modeling depends on [[abstraction]]; the relationships between the pieces of data is of more interest than th ...st nascent fields, [[interdisciplinary]], based on [[computer science]], [[mathematics]], [[library science]], information science, [[cognitive psychology]], [[li
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  • mathematics, and thirty-five to medicine and the natural sciences. As someone the function of abstraction, the ‘power’ which produces universals. Alkindï
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  • ...anged to law but mainly read literature, philology, and rhetoric, but also mathematics and science. He left university without completing his studies and became t ...iority which expression and communication, passion and symbol possess over abstraction, analysis and logic in matters of language. Neither logic nor even represen
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