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Plato’s Problem

Posted on January 23, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Plato’s problem is the term given by Noam Chomsky to the gap between knowledge and experience. It presents the question of how we account for our knowledge when environmental conditions seem to be an insufficient source of information. It is … Continue reading →

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First Principles by Howard Burton

Posted on June 17, 2009 by PlatoHagel

After returning home from our little vacation, I’ve hunkered down to read, and I thought this would be a good time to come to know of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada and how it started up. As … Continue reading →

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The Rhetorician

Posted on June 3, 2009 by PlatoHagel

This raises all sorts of questions, the most basic of which are: “What counts as `looking’ vs. `not looking’?” and “Do we really need a separate law of physics to describe the evolution of systems that are being looked at?” … Continue reading →

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Oh Dear!… How Technology has Changed Things

Posted on February 21, 2009 by PlatoHagel

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beautya beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable … Continue reading →

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Operational Definition Regressed to the Arts

Posted on November 20, 2008 by PlatoHagel

It is necessary at this time to show that such a procedure evolved here in Dialogos of Eide had to be taken to be interpreted as a an acceptance and assumption of the way the world “is” according to scientific … Continue reading →

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