Frans Van Schooten
Franciscus van Schooten (1615 in Leiden – 29 May 1660 in Leiden) was a Dutch mathematician who is most known for popularizing the analytic geometry of René Descartes.
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“English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with elements of the native language in any of various mutually incompatible ways, each compatible with all possible linguistic data, and none preferable to another save as favored by a rationalization of the native language that is simple and natural to us.”
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