- Tytuł:
- Number three as a law of science. In praise of number three
- Autorzy:
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Maciuk, Arkadiusz
Smoluk, Antoni - Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/421393.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2016
- Wydawca:
- Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
- Tematy:
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perception of natural numbers
three-valued logic
test exams - Opis:
- Comprehension of nature, in the simplest and quickest fashion, boils down to the differentiation of three states. This is probably related to the psychological fact that the human mind grasps only natural numbers from zero to three and the other numbers it calculates. We live in a divalent world created by Aristotle. However not everything can be reduced to two categories: “yes” and “no”, because Nature is abundant. The principle of continuity which facilitates understanding is in natural conflict with the binary description of the world. Ever since the times of Aristotle it has been normal to use in science a description of the world that is reduced to two states: “true” and “false”. In nature it is more obvious to distinguish three states: low-medium-high or negative-neutral-positive, etc. Man embraces at a single glance sets of three elements at most, and more numerous sets are divided into parts. Binary logic may have a negative impact on the process of teaching and examinations, especially if the tests are used.
- Źródło:
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Didactics of Mathematics; 2016, 13(17); 25-34
1733-7941 - Pojawia się w:
- Didactics of Mathematics
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki