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HoP 404 - Robert Goulding on Peter Ramus

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Reimus' Mathematical Method in Philosophy and Science

Reimus wanted to bring in a mathematical method in philosophy and also in teaching. He thinks mathematics should be divided up dichotomously neatly into all of its parts so that one can proceed from the both general down to the most special. In fact, when he actually turned to Euclid and Archimedes and other texts, he discovered mathematics was nothing like that. So he actually publishes his own versions of geometry in arithmetic which do attempt to conform to that.

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