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Showing posts with label OoC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OoC. Show all posts
05 February 2025

Out of Context: On Patterns (Definitions)

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"From the smallest scales to the largest, many of nature's patterns are a result of broken symmetry; […]" (Ian Stewart & M...
04 February 2025

Out of Context: On Diagrams (Definitions)

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 "Diagrams are of great utility for illustrating certain questions of vital statistics by conveying ideas on the subject through the ey...
20 January 2025

Out of Context: On Chance (Definitions)

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"Chance is a world void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause." (Voltaire, A Philosophical Dictionary, 1764) "Our conce...
29 October 2023

Out of Context: On Fractals (Definitions)

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  "A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales [...]" (Benoît Mandelbrot, ...

Out of Context: On Bifurcation (Definitions)

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"[…] bifurcations - the abrupt changes that can take place in the behavior, and often in the complexity, of a system when the value of ...

Out of Context: On Entropy (Just the Quotes)

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" If for the entire universe we conceive the same magnitude to be determined, consistently and with due regard to all circumstances, wh...

Out of Context: On Emergence (Definitions)

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"[...] emergence is an integral part of the dynamics of open systems [...] " (Fritjof  Capra, "The Hidden Connections", ...

Out of Context: On Self-organization (Definitions)

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"The phenomenon of self-organization is not limited to living matter but occurs also in certain chemical systems [...]" (Fritjof C...

Out of Context: On Axioms (Definitions)

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"An axiom is proposition more general than the propositions or the science in which it employed as an axiom; or, an axiom is a proposit...

Out of Context: On Proofs (Definitions)

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"Mathematical proofs are out of the reach of topical arguments; and are not to be attacked by the equivocal use of words or declaration...

Out of Context: On Curiosity (Definiions)

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"Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it." (Blaise Pascal, "Pensées...
28 October 2023

Out of Context: On Teaching (Definitions)

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"Teaching is just pointing out what you cannot see without help." (Issai Chozan, "The Mysterious Skills of the Old Cat" ...

Out of Context: On Learning (Definitions)

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"Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge." (William Hazlitt, "Table Talk;...

Out of Context: On Metaphysics (Definitions)

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"Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance." (Aristotle, "Metaphysics", 340 BC "...

Out of Context: On Scientific method (Definitions)

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"[...] scientific method is simply the attempt to acquire knowledge of general laws directly or indirectly by experience, by the use of...
05 July 2023

Out of Context: On Thought (Definitions)

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"It is probable that what we call thought is not an actual being, but no more than the relation between certain parts of that infinitel...
20 February 2022

Out of Context: The Aim of Mathematics

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"[…] mathematics is not, never was, and never will be, anything more than a particular kind of language, a sort of shorthand of thought...
26 October 2021

Out of Context: On Artificial Intelligence (Definitions)

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"Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men." (Marvin Mins...
28 August 2021

Out of Context: On Cybernetics (Definitions)

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"Cybernetics is a word invented to define a new field in science. It combines under one heading the study of what in a human context is...
23 August 2021

Out of Context: On Architecture (Definitions)

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"Architecture is frozen music." (Friedrich Schelling, "Philosophie der Kunst", cca 1805) "[...] architecture is a k...