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  • Plato at the Googleplex

    Rebecca Goldstein: “Plato at the Googleplex” | Talks at Google Dialogos of Eide

  • An Argument Against the Platonic World

     Pierre Curie (1894): “Asymmetry is what creates a phenomenon.”  Against symmetry,  is what constitutes time as a measure. So there is this argument in there too.:) My aim in this essay is to propose a conception of mathematics that is fully consonant with naturalism. By that I mean the hypothesis that everything that exists is…

  • The Form of the Good

    SOCRATES:  Tell me then, by Zeus, what is that excellent [págkalon, “all beautiful”] aim [érgon, “work, deed”] that the gods achieve, using us as their servants?  Plato, Euthyphro, 13e, translated by G.M.A. Grube [Hackett Publishing, 1981, p.19; Greek text, Plato — Euthryphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard, 1914-1956, pp.50-52] In the Republic,…

  • Justice

    Plato prove that justice does not depend upon a chance, convention or upon external force. It is the right condition of the human soul by the very nature of man when seen in the fullness of his environment. It is in this way that Plato condemned the position taken by Glaucon that justice is something…

  • Plato’s Theory of Forms

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  • After Relativism

    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 created with in the Timaeus; more than this, the realm of Platonic forms is itself…

  • Death is Not Final

    You all have to know the hammer analogy was made aware to me about a week before this debate took place. Also,  a YouTube label given to this demonstration was posted under “gaming” so I find that kind of funny given the seriousness of this debate. I pushed Number 1.  But, you also know my…

  • Euclid

      Euclid’s Geometry Lesson  in The School of Athens   Maybe you can identify the section from which this picture is taken from. The picture seen in the Fresco painted by Raphael, is entitled the School of Athens in  heading above?:)   All those who have written histories bring to this point their account of…

  • All-sky map

    All-sky map of the CMB, created from 9 years of WMAP data Comparison of CMB results from COBE, WMAP and Planck – March 21, 2013. Working out what happened in the moments after the Big Bang is difficult. Scientists can come up with theories, but in the end they are useful only if they can…

  • Who is the Clockmaker?

    Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) – oil painting by Salvador Dalí I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one? From Cosmic religion: with other…

  • Answers to Question-Interesting

    It seems the opportune time when thinking about positions people adopt, that one realizes that one is not in a class of their own, but do definitely belong to a group of people in regard to a response from a survey. While not a part of that culture, can one say, this is a representative…