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Highland County commissioners David Daniels, Brad Roades and Terry Britton approved a $300,000 advance for Highland County Children Services placement costs and discussed a potential opportunity to partner with the Highland County Health Department on digitizing files during their Wednesday, Feb. 7 meeting.
summary As discrete fields of inquiry, rhetoric and mathematics have long been considered antithetical to each other. That is, if mathematics explains or describes the phenomena it studies with certainty, persuasion is not needed. This volume calls into question the view that mathematics is free of rhetoric. Through nine studies of the intersections between these two disciplines, Arguing with Numbers shows that mathematics is in fact deeply rhetorical. Using rhetoric as a lens to analyze mathematically based arguments in public policy, political and economic theory, and even literat...