Thu 11 Mar, 2010 02:45 pm - Would it be enough to say that the conceiver is not a conception and can only be experienced, or [I]been[/I], where any conception must be false to it [I]a priori. [/I]Thus we arrive at Zen. (view)
Thu 11 Mar, 2010 01:21 pm - Reconstructo
Not sure this is entirely relevant here but it came up. Here's a sample of Dantzig.
"Herein I see the genesis of the conflict between geometrical intuition, from which... (view)
Mon 8 Mar, 2010 06:40 am - Hi Reconstructo
Just wanted to say I'm right with you on the discrete/continuous idea. Do you know Tobias Danzig, Einstein's favourite mathematician? He writes about this. The sleight... (view)
Sat 6 Mar, 2010 05:14 am - I'd agree about Hegel but find Wittgenstein hopelessly muddled. He is often accused of mysticism but never understood it, or never demonstrated that he did.
Btw, by my earlier comment... (view)
Sun 3 Jan, 2010 11:19 am - I don't think you're ill at all. But mysticism always was within the realm of physics, as nearly all the quantum pioneers realised. The universe is a unity, ergo it has no parts, ergo... (view)
Sat 2 Jan, 2010 06:03 pm - It seems to me that all the evidence points to a unity. It is well established that all partial metaphysical views are logically absurd, and the results of the natural sciences are consistent with... (view)
Sun 8 Nov, 2009 05:19 am - I think Kant was wrong. It would not be simply that we can't know the thing-in-itself, but that there's no such thing. When he concludes that all phenomena depend on a phenomena which is... (view)
Thu 5 Nov, 2009 04:12 am - I agree that it is useful to make the distinction, but to me it is only a convenience for the filing system. It would be impossible to have a fundamental theory in physics that is not also a... (view)
