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Scientific Fact between New Science and scienza nuova: Giambattista Vico’s factum and John Toland’s Matter of Fact

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  • Pavel Sokolov

    (Higher School of Economics, Moscow.)

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The article deals with the syncretic construction of fact which took shape in Early Modern Times at an intersection of biblical exegesis, political science, esthetics, historiography and natural sciences epistemology. The study attempts a comparative analysis of Giambattista Vico’s ‘new science’ and John Toland’s ‘travesty philosophy’, outlining shared reference points and structural similarities in their political epistemology: procedure of the authorization of facts, modal implications of the fact, economy of political dissimulation

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  • Pavel Sokolov, 2013. "Scientific Fact between New Science and scienza nuova: Giambattista Vico’s factum and John Toland’s Matter of Fact," HSE Working papers WP BRP 25/HUM/2013, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:hig:wpaper:25hum2013
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    history of humanities; objectivity; historical fact; scienza nuova; esthetics of originality; Newtonian exegesis; ragion di Stato.;
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