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Theory of Forms: Professor Gnomon's Lost Book of Ideas-A Crash Course In Everything
I tell thee such things, that no one may surpass thee in knowledge. Hear my words and carry them away. Well it is thou should learn the true way, since thou must judge all things, as well as the deceptive words of men borne along stupefied, deaf and blind, of how things come into being, are extinguished, and pass away, There is not, nor was there ever, nor shall there ever be, any time other than now, for now it is, all at once. What is, is in contact with what is. Nor is it divisible, since it is all alike, and holds together equally in all directions, at its farthest boundary, poised from the center, complete on every side, for it cannot be greater or smaller in one place than in another. In the midst of these are very many tokens of the Spirit, alone, uncreated, complete, immovable, indestructible, without beginning or end, directing the course of all things.
So, I present my Plato to you. Knowledge requires definition, that is, limits to have meaning for us all. The ancient the pre-Socratic Greeks and Aristotelian philosophy agree. Wise science follows the categories of logic and understanding, just as far as the evidence warrants and no further. The greatest, 20th century philosophy Lover of Forms, Niels Bohr, said David Hume ruled out "expansions”. This is where we find ourselves, with the Standard Model, Big Bang and String Theory.
We have come to a crash course in everything. Since we could speak we have always spoken as if there was 1. Stuff, and 2. What Happens With Stuff. Some things stay the same and some things change. We feel comfortable talking about, space and time in which things are, in which things remain, and move, or change. Whether they are actual or apparent, things go places and that takes time for this to happen. 1/billionth the speed of light is about 11 inches, and that is the distance between what “is” and what is perceived, as in Kant’s congruency. It makes sense these things are all interrelated.
Until the early 19th century we used to think that space was a blank, evenly distributed, homogenous medium, in which objects stood, and through which they moved. We thought time was a steadily flowing, forwardly progressing, homogenous medium in which objects endure or changed. Thus space itself was always the same, and time itself was always the same, fixed backgrounds upon which things stand still or move or change. We demanded cause, more than description.
So, I present my Plato to you. Knowledge requires definition, that is, limits to have meaning for us all. The ancient the pre-Socratic Greeks and Aristotelian philosophy agree. Wise science follows the categories of logic and understanding, just as far as the evidence warrants and no further. The greatest, 20th century philosophy Lover of Forms, Niels Bohr, said David Hume ruled out "expansions”. This is where we find ourselves, with the Standard Model, Big Bang and String Theory.
We have come to a crash course in everything. Since we could speak we have always spoken as if there was 1. Stuff, and 2. What Happens With Stuff. Some things stay the same and some things change. We feel comfortable talking about, space and time in which things are, in which things remain, and move, or change. Whether they are actual or apparent, things go places and that takes time for this to happen. 1/billionth the speed of light is about 11 inches, and that is the distance between what “is” and what is perceived, as in Kant’s congruency. It makes sense these things are all interrelated.
Until the early 19th century we used to think that space was a blank, evenly distributed, homogenous medium, in which objects stood, and through which they moved. We thought time was a steadily flowing, forwardly progressing, homogenous medium in which objects endure or changed. Thus space itself was always the same, and time itself was always the same, fixed backgrounds upon which things stand still or move or change. We demanded cause, more than description.
98 pages, Paperback
Published August 15, 2021
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