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Knowledge comes from the observation that what surrounds us is provoked by the questions people poses when thinking on it; is reachecorrespondingd thanks to reasoning, and usually through establishing hypotheses and further testing them and their consequences against the reality. Speculation lays at the basic level of both ‘thinking on it’, and ‘establishing and testing hypotheses’.
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Original latin passage: “. Cum neminem ante nos de vulgaris eloquentie doctrina quicquam inveniamus tractasse, atque talem scilicet eloquentiam penitus omnibus necessariam videamus, cum ad eam non tantum viri sed etiam mulieres et parvuli nitantur, in quantum natura permictit, volentes discretionem aliqualiter lucidare illorum qui tanquam ceci ambulant per plateas, plerunque anteriora posteriora putantes,-Verbo aspirante de celis-locutioni vulgarium gentium prodesse temptabimus, non solum aquam nostri ingenii ad tantum poculum aurientes, sed, accipiendo vel compilando ab aliis, potiora miscentes, ut exinde potionare possimus dulcissimum ydromellum..
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The debate regarding the use of mathematics in Economics is very useful for framing our discussion in the context of contemporary research. Postponing its possible deepenings elsewhere, we limit ourselves to remember that also Poincaré, at his time, was very severe with an uncritical use and that, today it is strongly connected with empirical support and the ability of making predictions.
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See, for many interesting considerations, the paper by [9].
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We cannot but regret that the Series of informal meetings “Saturday’s Scientific Conversations”, which aimed at revitalizing the old tradition of vis a vis scientific debates, went on only for three editions.
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See [6].
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Trillas, E., Termini, S., Tabacchi, M.E. (2022). Looking for Some Historical Roots. In: Reasoning and Language at Work. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 991. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86088-2_14
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