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(2001) Philosophy and geometry, Dordrecht, Springer.
As we have illustrated in chapter 1, Thom, when commenting on Lévi-Bruhl, who had reflected on the spatial frameworks of primitive societies, states:This conception of a flexible and individual space-time, which will cease to be a universal frame valid for all men, clearly conflicts head on with the basic postulate of all modern science that there exists a universal space-time valid and isomorphic for all. It is without doubt this essential difference that Lévi-Bruhl had wished to signify in speaking of "pre-logical mentality" — unhappy words, for logic has in principle, nothing to do with the representation of space (Thom, 1983, p. 133).
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-9622-5_3
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Magnani, L. (2001). Constructions, logic, categories, in Philosophy and geometry, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 57-89.
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