Quantitative form in arguments

Gary Urton

pp. 283-297

in: Swapna Mukhopadhyay, Wolff-Michael Roth (eds), Alternative forms of knowing (in) mathematics, Rotterdam, SensePublishers, 2012

Abstract

Many people argue that too much data about the injustices in our world make us numb to the realities of those situations in people's lives. Wasserman's editorial cartoon about the Israeli occupation of Palestine makes this point²: However, we do need to know the meaning of the numbers describing our realities in order to deepen our understandings of our world.