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Category Archives: Self Evident
About Knowledge
“As to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.” “Leaves of Grass” by Walt Whitman Justified true belief…..does it matter what knowledge could exist in or … Continue reading
Posted in Alchemists, Emergence, Self Evident, Sir Isaac Newton
Tagged Alchemists, Emergence, Philosophy, Self Evident, Sir Isaac Newton
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What Is Déjà Vu?
*** Déjà vu (French pronunciation: [deʒa vy] ( listen), literally “already seen”) is the experience of feeling sure that one has already witnessed or experienced a current situation, even though the exact circumstances of the prior encounter are uncertain and were perhaps … Continue reading
Posted in Intuition, Memories, Self Evident, Time Travel
Tagged deja vu, Heterodyne, Intuition, Memories, Self Evident, Time Travel
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Justified true belief
Before Gettier, an historical account brings one up to date? Euler diagram representing a definition of knowledge. Justified true belief is one definition of knowledge that states in order to know that a given proposition is true, one must not … Continue reading
Posted in Meno, Plato, Quadrivium, rhetoric, Self Evident, Socrates, Socratic Method, Trivium
Tagged Demarcation Problem, first principle, Meno, Noam Chomsky, Philosophy, Plato, Quadrivium, rhetoric, Self Evident, Socrates, Socratic Method, Trivium
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Explanation on Quantum Gravity in a Nutshell
Although Aristotle in general had a more empirical and experimental attitude than Plato, modern science did not come into its own until Plato’s Pythagorean confidence in the mathematical nature of the world returned with Kepler, Galileo, and Newton. For instance, … Continue reading
Posted in General Relativity, Quantum Gravity, Self Evident
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Entheorizing
LEONARD SUSSKIND: And I fiddled with it, I monkeyed with it. I sat in my attic, I think for two months on and off. But the first thing I could see in it, it was describing some kind of particles … Continue reading
Posted in Einstein, Self Evident, Susskind
Tagged Einstein, Materialism, Self Evident, Susskind
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Intelligent Life in the Universe?
While Drake’s equation is a good basis for systematic investigations of signals from extraterrestrial intelligences, I care little about the admittedly scarce possibility that we ever receive positive news from our SETI searches. I care more about the fact that, … Continue reading
Posted in Aliens, deduction, Deep Play, Induction, Moon Base, Outside Time, Self Evident
Tagged Aliens, deduction, Deep Play, Induction, Moon Base, Outside Time, Self Evident, Species
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A Correlation in Perception
James Cameron’s AVATAR This post will indeed seem quite odd. But as I told Phil I wanted to explain a principal behind all the language I used here as if it would appear to another if we assume another perspective. … Continue reading
Posted in Aristotelean Arche, Avatar, deduction, Induction, Self Evident, Sound
Tagged Aristotelean Arche, Avatar, deduction, Induction, Self Evident, Sound
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The Book: A Chapter Still to be Read
While the LHC is hibernating until February next year, outreach efforts are not on hold. Here in Germany, there is a nice exhibition on tour, called “Die Weltmaschine”. This means literally the “world machine” – somewhat better than the “big … Continue reading
Posted in Cosmic Rays, Pierre Auger, Self Evident
Tagged Cosmic Rays, Pierre Auger, Self Evident
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What Began all Else Follows
ISAACSON: The virtue of tolerance, which I think is the most important virtue we need in the 21st century. When Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration, he had a great line, “We hold these truths to be … Continue reading
Philemon and the Liber Novus
Giving a dream to a Jungian analyst is a little bit like feeding a complex quadratic equation to someone who really enjoys math. It takes time. The process itself is to be savored. The solution is not always immediately evident.The … Continue reading
Posted in Carl Jung, John Nash, PHAEDRUS, Robert Pirsig, Self Evident, Socrates
Tagged Carl Jung, John Nash, PHAEDRUS, Robert Pirsig, Self Evident, Socrates
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