A half century ago the philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce explored canons of greatness, wondering whether there might be some rule or set of rules to tell who were the century's great men. Definitions of greatness, he felt, were only like rules of grammar ; these do not '(render an expression bad En
Benjamin Franklin and Twentieth Century Science
โ Scribed by Frederick Seitz
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1965
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 923 KB
- Volume
- 280
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-0032
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