Tag Archives: Induction

Information Access

Posted on December 30, 2015 by PlatoHagel

Why Physicists are Saying Consciousness is a State of Matter, Like a Solid, a Liquid, or a Gas. ……..of “fundamental” range from the inexplicability of mentality in other, and non-mentalistic, terms to the idealist view that in some sense everything … Continue reading →

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The Law of Attraction

Posted on December 22, 2015 by PlatoHagel

The law of attraction is the name given to the maxim “like attracts like” which in New Thought philosophy is used to sum up the idea that by focusing on positive or negative thoughts a person brings positive or negative … Continue reading →

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Ambiguous Perception

Posted on June 26, 2015 by PlatoHagel

Ambiguous perception. A good example is bistable perception, which concerns alternating views of ambiguous figures, such as the Necker cube. Atmanspacher, Filk, and R€omer (2004) and Atmanspacher and Filk (2010) developed a detailed model describing a number of psychophysical features … Continue reading →

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Are you a Platonist?

Posted on May 20, 2015 by PlatoHagel

Kant, however, is correct in that we inevitably try and conceive of transcendent, which means unconditioned, objects. This generates “dialectical illusion” in the Antinomies of reason. Kant thought that some Antinomies could be resolved as “postulates of practical reason” (God, … Continue reading →

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Before an Equation is Beautiful…..

Posted on May 9, 2015 by PlatoHagel

 So we go after the essence of things in a logical way? A question then that comes to mind is that if equations can become beautiful what were equations before? If taken in context of Aristotle, Objective deduction of information … Continue reading →

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Aristotle-The Square of Opposition (Whiteboard Animation)

Posted on February 16, 2015 by PlatoHagel

Aristotle laid out the principles of his logic in his writing Περὶ Ἑρμηνείας, in Latin De Interpretatione, in English On Exposition. It is a graphical representation of the relations between propositions that guarantee their truth. If philosophers and scientists would … Continue reading →

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After Relativism

Posted on January 23, 2015 by PlatoHagel

Watch more videos on iai.tv ***  “…underwriting the form languages of ever more domains of mathematics is a set of deep patterns which not only offer access to a kind of ideality that Plato claimed to see the universe as … Continue reading →

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Rationalism vs Empiricism

Posted on January 12, 2015 by PlatoHagel

The dispute between rationalism and empiricism concerns the extent to which we are dependent upon sense experience in our effort to gain knowledge. Rationalists claim that there are significant ways in which our concepts and knowledge are gained independently of … Continue reading →

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Freewill under Scrutiny

Posted on April 16, 2014 by PlatoHagel

Photo courtesy of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.  ΔpΔx ≥ h/2π In contrast I seek to awaken a fair and good interpretation of the “I AM” as the intellect and, and about our choices.  … Continue reading →

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Unus Mundus-One World

Posted on February 8, 2014 by PlatoHagel

Unus mundus, Latin for “one world”, is the concept of an underlying unified reality from which everything emerges and to which everything returns.The idea was popularized in the 20th century by the Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung, though the term can … Continue reading →

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