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If you could have dinner with 3 thinkers, who would you invite to such an occasion? (pg. 4)
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by shaolin_z
Ibn al-Haytham - the pioneer of the scientific method. |
Looked him up on Wikipedia, what an interesting fellow. But, I wouldn't pick him, otherwise I would want to bring Paul Feyerabend, Thomas Kuhn, Imre Lakatos and Karl Popper along... and then hell would break loose :D |
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| shaolin_Z |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Looked him up on Wikipedia, what an interesting fellow. But, if I wouldn't pick him, otherwise I would want to bring Paul Feyerabend, Thomas Kuhn, Imre Lakatos and Karl Popper along... and then hell would break loose :D |
Those are some interesting people you mentioned there, thanks for the list :). |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by shaolin_Z
Those are some interesting people you mentioned there, thanks for the list :). |
If you like philosophy of science, read "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions", by Thomas Kuhn, and "Against Method", by Paul Feyerabend - you will never see science the same way (although Paul Feyerabend is known for being way too unorthodox). |
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| DJ Shibby |
| quote: | Originally posted by shaolin_Z
Yup, amongst many other subjects.
Stephen Hawkings is a theoretical physicist, but I definetly wouldn't put him in the category of quacks. Some of his work might have become mainstream pop-science so to speak, which is just coincidental. But Michio Kaku on the other hand, is more than a bit of a quack. Which is why it would be interesting to have all three of them in one room. |
hahahaha
I like the way you think. :) |
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| DJ Shibby |
mmm
They are not forgotten here. |
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| DJ Shibby |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Looked him up on Wikipedia, what an interesting fellow. But, I wouldn't pick him, otherwise I would want to bring Paul Feyerabend, Thomas Kuhn, Imre Lakatos and Karl Popper along... and then hell would break loose :D |
A large sum of our modern technology breakthroughs occurred in cultures and times which we are unable to understand.
Mainly, ancient China, and the Persian world.
Mostly in pursuit of war, as always, and eventually finding their technological placeholds in the mundane complacency of the commonality. |
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| Renegade |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Shibby
A large sum of our modern technology breakthroughs occurred in cultures and times which we are unable to understand.
Mainly, ancient China, and the Persian world. |
What technology / knowledge did the west obtain from China? |
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| LatinLover |
| Thomas Jefferson, Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, Karl Rove |
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| DJ Shibby |
| quote: | Originally posted by Renegade
What technology / knowledge did the west obtain from China? |
Lots of early engineering breakthroughs, especially in the use of fire, which enabled metals to be melted and molded that couldn't be prior. also, paper, gunpowder, money, etc |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Shibby
A large sum of our modern technology breakthroughs occurred in cultures and times which we are unable to understand.
Mainly, ancient China, and the Persian world.
Mostly in pursuit of war, as always, and eventually finding their technological placeholds in the mundane complacency of the commonality. |
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I think I didn't really understand what you mean... Was there some sort of well established non-European philosophy of science? |
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| Krypton |
| Jesus and Richard Dawkins...:D |
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| Alex |
| Tucker Carlson, Bill O'Reiley and the Re-Animated corpse of Ronald Reagan. |
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