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point of view into a dynamical one. Aris-
                                         totle’s mental capacity to understand the
                                         meaning of facts or to criticise a train of
                                         reasoning may have been equal to that of
                                         Kepler or Newton, but the point of view
                                         was different.
                                            Then, again, new points of view are pro-
                                         vided by the invention of new methods in
                                         that system of logic which we call math-
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