What is Real?
My current listen on Audible: What is Real? by Adam Becker. Description: βEvery physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity’s finest scientific achievements. But ask …
History
An Origin of the Concept ‘Freedom’
In the entry “Ama-gi” on Wikipedia, they write: “Ama-gi is a Sumerian word written πΌπ ama-gi or πΌπ π ama-ar-gi. It has been translated as ‘freedom’, …
Aristotle vs. Plato
“If Plato’s prose was silver, Aristotle’s was a flowing river of gold.” –Cicero Context of quote from its source, the History Channel’s entry on Aristotle: …
“Galileo’s Measure Of Gravity Explained By Jim Al-Khalili | The Amazing World Of Gravity | Spark”
Beautiful and well done.
Cantares Mexicanos
In the Cantares Mexicanos entry on Wikipedia, they write: “The Cantares Mexicanos is the name given to a manuscript collection of Nahuatl songs or poems …
Nihilism
An unfortunate suffering on the part of some moderns and an unfortunate influence on our world. “Nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless …
Galileo: Rejecting Plato
Platonists suffered from a bad epistemology and metaphysics, so they believed that ideas they made up in their heads were true regardless of what experience …
“London Bridge is Falling Down” is Viking Verse?
Maybe. Yes, the nursery rhyme “London Bridge is Falling Down” might have come from a Viking verse. As they say on Wikipedia: “One hypothesis of …