The Soul at the Razor’s Edge
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چکیده
Intervening between logic and biology, a statistician who, first trained in mathematics, went then towards linguistics and other human sciences, should be cautious. But if he refrains both from overly technical formulas and overly vague sentences what will remain for him to say? I will apply myself therefore to raise, by the interplay of formulas, sufficiently suggestive images to illustrate, animate and circumscribe a number of old maxims. Even if the authority of erudition is no longer today met with as formerly among the scholarly in long dress of Bologna or of Baghdad, I will go in quest of, sometimes far from us, some learned testimonies to the universality of my subject.
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