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Posted on February 18, 2012 by isomorphismes

The definition of toposes has surprisingly powerful consequences. (For example, toposes have all finite colimits.) Probably the best analogy elsewhere in which a couple of mild-sounding hypotheses pick out a very narrow and interesting class of examples is the way … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Agustin Cauchy, analytic functions, Bernhard Riemann, category theory, Cauchy-Riemann equations, Charles Wells, complex analysis, complex numbers, complex variables, i, inference, mathematics, meromorphic functions, Michael Barr, smooth functions, sqrt(-1), topos theory, toposes | Leave a comment

Posted on December 4, 2011 by isomorphismes

The actual science of logic is conversant at present only with things either certain, impossible, or entirely doubtful, none of which (fortunately) we have to reason on. Therefore the true logic for this world is the calculus of Probabilities, which … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bayes' theorem, Bayesian, evidence, feminism, inference, James Clerk Maxwell, logic, plausibility, probability, reasoning, science, subjective probability, truth, uncertainty, validity | Leave a comment

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