Rising above a cause-and-effect stance in mathematics
education research
Rene´ Descartes was strongly influenced by the cuckoo clock: the idea of a mechanism with
logical and necessary consequences as a metaphor for human experience. Pierre-Simon
Laplace applied this mathematically by claiming that if he had all the initial conditions at
some point in time, then he could predict everything subsequently. The cuckoo clock
mechanism metaphor, complete cause-and-effect, underpinned the enlightenment and the
industrial revolution, because mechanisms can be engineered to be independent of time,
place, situation and conditions.
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Penerbit
Springer Science Business Media :
New York.,
2016
Edisi
(2016) 19:297–300 DOI
Pernyataan Tanggungjawab
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