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Manchester vs Athens
Mathematics is the combination of two traditions, the deductive greek science whose Idealtypus was geometry, and…
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Kant’s Einbildungskraft, Popper and Lem
Another take on the same topic. Popper falsificationism amounts basically to a view of the scientific…
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Renaissance: Perspective and birth of mathematical Infinity
The birth of modern world in the Middle Age out of perspective in painting (Greeks did…
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Deus Sive Natura
Whether an age or an individual will express itself in creative thinking or in repetitive pedantry…
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Halting problem
Q: I wonder why after having compiled a .tex file down to .pdf, the inverse operation…
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Arretratezza e folklore (Gramsci)
From “Quaderni del carcere”, by Antonio Gramsci Einaudi 2001, vol. II, pp. 1375-1395 (here). In the…
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The problem of power
Upon reading Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion; Civilization and its discontents Amos Vogel, Film…
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Characteristica Universalis
“Utile erit scribi pro omnia” (Leibniz, 29 October 1675, Paris, now in Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Manuskript…
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Labyrinth (after Italo Calvino)
Italo Calvino talks about the labyrinth in his Six Memos for the Next Millennium (here), and…
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Stanislaw Lem: Revolution in the Mind
In Summa Technologiae, Stanislaw Lem of “Solaris” fame addresses some of the most pressing questions connected…
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