Tag: geometry
The Biggest Myth So Far in Cosmos 3.0 — Baruch Spinoza as Science Hero
Scholarship on Spinoza in the last decade has increasingly recognized that he opposed the observational (empirical) and mathematical analyses of nature.
Essence and Existence in Modern Science
St. Thomas laid the intellectual groundwork for modern natural science — the absolute distinction between existence and essence.
Stranger on a Plane: Lessons from Flatland
In 1884, English clergyman Edwin A. Abbott published a work of scientific and mathematical fantasy.
Previously Unknown “Scutoid” Shape, Critical to Biology, Calls Architecture and Design to Mind
These sources should be more careful with their word choice. Someone could get the wrong idea.
Naturalism and Self-Refutation
How much does Gödel’s incompleteness theorem weigh? What is the physics of non-contradiction? How many millimeters long is Tom Clark’s argument for naturalism?