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The fact is that anti-intellectualistic philosophy in rejecting analysis and 'discourse', just by that condemns itself to bring intransmissible, it is a philosophy essentially internal, or, at the very least, only its negation can be transmitted; what wonder then that for an external observer it takes the shape of scepticism?
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Physical law would then assume an entirely new aspect; it would no longer be solely a differential equation, it would take the character of a statistical law.
— Dec 30, 2019 06:09AM
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Auguste Comte has said somewhere, that it would be idle to seek to know the composition of the sun, since this knowledge would be of no use to sociology. How could be so short-sighted? Have we not just seen that it is by astronomy that, to speak his language, humanity has passed from the theological to the positive state?
— Dec 04, 2019 06:06AM
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On the other hand, look at Professor Klein: he is studying one of
the most abstract questions of the theory of functions to determine
whether on a given Riemann surface there always exists a function
admitting of given singularities. What does the celebrated German
geometer do? He replaces his Riemann surface by a metallic surface
whose electric conductivity varies according to certain laws.
— Oct 18, 2017 05:19PM
the most abstract questions of the theory of functions to determine
whether on a given Riemann surface there always exists a function
admitting of given singularities. What does the celebrated German
geometer do? He replaces his Riemann surface by a metallic surface
whose electric conductivity varies according to certain laws.
