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(1996) The truthful and the good, Dordrecht, Springer.

The primacy of identity

Gian-Carlo Rota

pp. 39-45

When Alfred North Whitehead wrote that all philosophy is a footnote to Greek philosophy, he did not go far enough. Our debt to the Greeks goes beyond philosophy. Our science, our social order, and much else we live by today can also trace their origins to Greek antiquity.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-1724-8_3

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Rota, (1996)., The primacy of identity, in J. Drummond & J. G. Hart (eds.), The truthful and the good, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 39-45.