Tag Archives: Self Evident

The Value of the Dollar

Posted on February 14, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Ingenuity The term ingenuity or applied ideas is used in the analysis of Thomas Homer-Dixon, building on that of Paul Romer, to refer to what is usually called instructional capital. Ingenuity is often inherent in creative individuals, and thus is … Continue reading →

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Theoretical Excellence

Posted on February 12, 2008 by PlatoHagel

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 →

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Inside Out

Posted on February 12, 2008 by PlatoHagel

3.1 As Cytowic notes, Plato and Socrates viewed emotion and reason as in a kind of struggle, one in which it was vitally important for reason to win out. Aristotle took a more moderate view, that both emotion and reason … Continue reading →

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Self Evident Truths

Posted on February 10, 2008 by PlatoHagel

I am convinced that those societies [as the Indians] which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under European governments.— Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787 There is a … Continue reading →

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Mind Maps: Mathematical Structures?

Posted on February 4, 2008 by PlatoHagel

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_doctrine_of_recollection&quot; target=_BLank title="The Platonic doctrine of recollection is the idea that we are born possessing all knowledge and our realization of that knowledge is contingent on our discovery of it. Whether the doctrine should be taken literally or not … Continue reading →

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The Other Side of the Coin

Posted on December 11, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Susan Holmes– Statistician Persi Diaconis’ mechanical coin flipper. In football’s inaugural kickoff coin toss, the coin is not caught but allowed to bounce on the ground. That introduces an extra complication, one mathematicians have yet to sort out. Persi Diaconis … Continue reading →

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Self Evident Dimensional Perspective

Posted on November 17, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Where a dictionary proceeds in a circular manner, defining a word by reference to another, the basic concepts of mathematics are infinitely closer to an indecomposable element”, a kind of elementary particle” of thought with a minimal amount of ambiguity … Continue reading →

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The Artist In Us All

Posted on October 14, 2007 by PlatoHagel

““Deep play means no analysis, no explanation, no promises, no goals, no worries. You are completely open to the drama of life that may unfold.”“-Dianne Ackerman See more on Deep Play. This post entry under the heading of the “Artist … Continue reading →

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Production of Gravitational Waves

Posted on September 29, 2007 by PlatoHagel

“My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky.”William Wordsworth— My Heart Leaps Up This post is based on “the production” and not the detection of gravitational waves. It does serve it’s purpose, that I explain what … Continue reading →

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Heralded from the 21st Century: String Theory

Posted on March 25, 2007 by PlatoHagel

I know not how, may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimensionality, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to limited Dimensionality.” from Flatland, by E. A. Abbott It … Continue reading →

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