Babbage's miraculous computation revisited

Charles Babbage used an example suggested by the computational power of his calculating engine to suggest that 'miraculous events' might be as lawful as the regularities presumed by 'vast inductions'. In this paper I revisit the issue by employing a simple shape grammatical example. Induction and emergence are contrasted.

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Year of publication:	1996
Authors:	March, L
Published in:	Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design. - Pion Ltd, London, ISSN 1472-3417. - Vol. 23.1996, 3, p. 369-376
Publisher:	Pion Ltd, London

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Extent:	application/pdf
Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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