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Physics, Materialism, Causality, Statistics – and Vladimir Lenin

February 8, 2018by James Robb Leave a comment

Mathematics falls from grace (Part 2) By the time modern Statistics arose, the mechanical conception of nature (discussed in Part 1) had already greatly broken down, under the impact of […]

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