Category Archives: Induction

Plato and Aristotle

Posted on February 24, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Plato – holding the Timaeus – Pointing up as a sign of his metaphysical belief in the higher world of the forms, shown with the face of Leonardo. Aristotle – holding his Ethics with hand palm down, reflecting a more … Continue reading →

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Objective Truth?

Posted on October 28, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Mark: you can tell has a real thirst to get her mind around the issues, and who isn’t looking for a sound bite to take the place of a complicated story There is no doubt in my mind that KC … Continue reading →

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Raphael Rooms

Posted on October 8, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Room of the Segnatura Virtual Tour of this Room The Room of the Segnatura contains Raphael’s most famous frescoes. Besides being the first work executed by the great artist in the Vatican they mark the beginning of the high Renaissance. … Continue reading →

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Sylvester’s Surfaces

Posted on May 21, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Figure 2. Clebsch’s Diagonal Surface: Wonderful. We are told that “mathematics is that study which knows nothing of observation…” I think no statement could have been more opposite to the undoubted facts of the case; that mathematical analysis is constantly … Continue reading →

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Topo-sense?

Posted on May 19, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Michael Persinger has a vision – the Almighty isn’t dead, he’s an energy field. And your mind is an electromagnetic map to your soul. Persinger’s research forays are at the very frontier of the roiling field of neuroscience, the biochemical … Continue reading →

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Larry Summers Issue Reveals Deeper Implications

Posted on March 22, 2005 by PlatoHagel

All the informtaion is gathered material, that held the Larry Summers issue in context. I was revealing aspects of this issue on another level, that many would not have understood. I wanted to bring it together here because the understanding … Continue reading →

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Education, Now Stimulates Creativity:-)

Posted on January 13, 2005 by PlatoHagel

The nice thing about good educators is the resource that they can help point lay people to to encourage exploration and thought provocation. It is not to nice to have controls place on the the ability of resource searchers to … Continue reading →

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Induction and Deduction

Posted on January 3, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Our attempt to justify our beliefs logically by giving reasons results in the “regress of reasons.” Since any reason can be further challenged, the regress of reasons threatens to be an infinite regress. However, since this is impossible, there must … Continue reading →

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