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It doesn't appear that we are merely inventing ideas that
j ust happen to describe sensible objects ; it seems, rather, that
the mathematical imagination is an extra sense with which
we can perceive the natural world. And it is an extremely
efficacious sense, because it often perceives reality long before
our scientific senses do.
— May 15, 2013 09:34PM
j ust happen to describe sensible objects ; it seems, rather, that
the mathematical imagination is an extra sense with which
we can perceive the natural world. And it is an extremely
efficacious sense, because it often perceives reality long before
our scientific senses do.
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Bhumika
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Game theory applied to evaluate our capacity to reason
also tells us Our fascination with games is evidence not of our ability
to reason, as one might guess, but of our lack of a greater
reasoning capacity. The higher a species falls on the scale of
reason, the less playful its members can be expected to be.
— May 20, 2013 10:27PM
also tells us Our fascination with games is evidence not of our ability
to reason, as one might guess, but of our lack of a greater
reasoning capacity. The higher a species falls on the scale of
reason, the less playful its members can be expected to be.
Bhumika
is on page 144 of 216
It doesn't appear that we are merely inventing ideas that
j ust happen to describe sensible objects ; it seems, rather, that
the mathematical imagination is an extra sense with which
we can perceive the natural world. And it is an extremely
efficacious sense, because it often perceives reality long before
our scientific senses do.
— May 20, 2013 10:23PM
j ust happen to describe sensible objects ; it seems, rather, that
the mathematical imagination is an extra sense with which
we can perceive the natural world. And it is an extremely
efficacious sense, because it often perceives reality long before
our scientific senses do.
