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First published in the USA by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. 1986 First published in Great Britain by Harvester Press 1986 Published in Penguin Books 1988
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‘The Criterion Makers: Mathematics and Social Policy’ previously published in American Scientist, 50(3):258A-274A, 1962. ‘Are We Drowning in Digits?’ previously published by UPI wire service, December, 1981. ‘Of Time and Mathematics’ previously published in Southern Humanities Review, 18:193-202, 1984 ‘Mathematics and Rhetoric’ to be published in T_he Rhetoric of the Human Sciences_. John S. Nelson, Allan Megill and Donald N. McCloskey, editors. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, forthcoming.
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