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Craftsman of Plato
Time is of your own making; its clock ticks in your head. The moment you stop thought time too stops dead. Angelus Silesius See Status of Warp Drive Smolin had some deep questions and relevance “about” time? :) Some “updates” within this article. Mainly for all those “couch potatoes” who watch Law and Order. I…
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Whose who, in the School of Athens
I was over visiting Clifford’s blog called Asymptotia this morning and notice a blog entry called, Heretics of Alexandria. Of course, what first came to mind is the “Library of Alexandria.” Clifford writes and paraphrases: This full length drama, set in Alexandria Egypt, 415 A.D. features the infamous Philosopher Hypatia, who has come into possession…
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Johannes Kepler: The Birth of the Universe
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Against Symmetry
The term “symmetry” derives from the Greek words sun (meaning ‘with’ or ‘together’) and metron (‘measure’), yielding summetria, and originally indicated a relation of commensurability (such is the meaning codified in Euclid’s Elements for example). It quickly acquired a further, more general, meaning: that of a proportion relation, grounded on (integer) numbers, and with the…
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What I wanted to Portray in Aristotle and Plato?
On my site you will see that they work together but from different perspectives. Look at the hand gestures… 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…
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If it’s Not a Soccer Ball, What is it?
Timaeus concludes And so now we may say that our account of the universe has reached its conclusion. This world of ours has received and teems with living things, mortal and immortal. A visible living thing containing visible things, and a perciptible God, the image of the intelligible Living Thing. Its grandness, goodness, beauty and…
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Plato and Aristotle
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 grounded approach to the problem of universals. I wanted to remind people of something quite…
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Timaeus:Laying the Ground rules on Genesis
You all know that you each have a respective hand on the elephant, and thsoe who would contribute their qunatum mathematics are new comers to what had already existed. As the craftsman Plato, I created the elephant in the thought of the man for this time:) Genesis Timaeus 27c-34a Sometimes as you read my dialogues…
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Objective Truth?
