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Nice essay on the history of ideas with a thesis that many of our ideas are not that new. ‘Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians.’ He had ‘one foot in the Middle Ages and one foot treading a path for modern science’. ... Newton’s greatest gift was intuition; the ability, for instance, to realise that a spherical mass could be treated as a point, even before he could derive the mathematical proof. Intuition, however, could be considered revelation by a more secular name...The recurrence of ideas over the course of history is something that Jung or Pauli would have attributed to archetypes in the collective unconscious. An alternative would be the finiteness of human imagination, and susceptibility to cultural influence. aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/how-fossilised-ideas-live-on-in-language-and-science/
Posted on: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 09:35:28 +0000

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