Is Pythagoras's Theorem a Social Construct?

Russian Studies in Philosophy 50 (4):94-97 (2012)
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The author clarifies the thesis of the social constructivists and shows how it is overlapping with some ideas of its critics. Based on established agreement between social constructivism and evolutionary epistemology, she argues that the conceptual elements of mathematical knowledge are social constructs

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Zinaida Aleksandrovna Sokuler
Moscow State University

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