by Lucille Turner | Aug 12, 2017 | Philosophy
William of Ockham, an English philosopher, is credited with the principle of Occam’s razor, also used by scientists such as Einstein. The Occam’s razor principle says that the simplest solution is normally the right one, and it rests upon the same rational,...
by Lucille Turner | Aug 6, 2017 | Philosophy
READ PARTS I to V HERE As a young man of 17 or 18 years, Aristotle was sent to Plato’s Academy to learn from the great master himself, who by now had become almost a legend in his own right with his Dialogues based on the Socratic method of posing a rhetorical...
by Lucille Turner | Jul 28, 2017 | Philosophy
READ PARTS I to IV HERE SLXLM While Socrates was defending his opinions in the great halls of Athens, the city-state was falling apart. Wars were being fought, and people were becoming poor. Perhaps this was the reason for the ultimate condemnation of...
by Lucille Turner | Jul 21, 2017 | Philosophy
READ PARTS I, II AND III HERE SLXLM Around the same time that Pythagoras was reflecting on the impossibility of irrational numbers and the apparently numerical nature of eternity, across the Aegean Sea in the city of Athens other ideas were taking shape....
by Lucille Turner | Jul 14, 2017 | History and Fiction
READ PARTS I AND II HERE Of all the thinkers, mathematicians, geometers and physicians among the Ancient Greek line-up of astonishing mortal men, among the most famous is Pythagoras. As a cultural export, his mathematical theories have outlived him by well over two...