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Philosophy

Before Aristotle: The Making of Identity

Formal logic works with identities and distinctions. Understanding complex systems requires explaining how both emerge and persist through the relations that sustain them.

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Philosophy

why identity is not as simple as A = A

A is A. The interesting question is how it keeps getting away with it.

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Philosophy

Aristotle and Alexander, Albert and the Atom

I’ve never been entirely certain that educating a person who as a probable consequence then goes on to conquer the known world (of their time) is necessarily a good thing. Of course, we can never be certain what someone will do with the technical knowledge or practical wisdom we might be fortunate enough in all […]