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SALOMON BOCHNER

[See also Baconianism; Cycles; Historiography; Infinity;
Platonism; Pragmatism; Pre-Platonic Conceptions; Progress;
Pythagorean...; Revolution; Uniformitarianism and Ca-
tastrophism.
]