Presocratics Part 2: Mathematics, Atoms, and Logic
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Continuing our examination of the Presocratic Greek philosophers, we examine some early formulations of mathematics, atomism, and logic. This will include figures from the Eleatic school, including Zeno and his famous paradoxes, and then moving on to the pluralists such as Anaxagoras and Empedocles. This leads to the Abdera school and Democritus, for our first conception of the atom, as well as the Sophists, the famous itinerant thinkers.
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Only Zeno would try to disprove movement with movement.
And this guy is remembered thousends of years after his death kids. If he can do it, so can you.
Honestly I wonder if he meant it more like making fun of / demonstrate how it's possible to use logic to lead to illogical conclusions, kinda like how Schrodinger made his cat dead & alive at the same time thought experiment to illustrate how ridiculous quantum mechanics can seem from our non quantum perspective.
The paradox assumes people walk a half and then a half again so on so fourth... towards their destination but I don't carry a ruler with me.
Finished my masters in philosophy in 2014, and I really like how these series refreshes my memory of it. I devoted both my theses to Kant, one of which was geared towards his criticism of attempting to determine the existence of God. I really hope Dave will read up on that and explains this as well. I still think his criticism is on point and am curious how Dave would assess it.
Sir please make full complex numbers , sequrlence and series , statistics and probability videos in mathematics playlist
These have been very enjoyable.
I find it funny how heaps of philosophers kept thinking everything must be made from one thing but could not agree on it being called 'stuff.' Name a single material thing not made from stuff and that the cosmos itself is from stuff made what else were they looking for? Things? A simple play on words but what are words but things and so distinction was created in the zooming into the cosmos its "parts" perhaps we're going about things backwards and ought to zoom out or look at both perspectives simultaneously - something being incorrect is as much information as something being correct. Yin and Yang kinda thing. Mysticism. The universe seems to have symmetry at least.
I always wandered how and why did they let the religion away and inquired nature almost without it?
Hmm cool
Those ancient greeks were some smart cookies. Anyone claiming ancient peoples of whatever ethnicity couldn't possibly have achieved anything should really take a course on how much of our current knowledge is based on and was predicted by these people. And I don't mean just the greeks.
This is true especially in their architecture. Just because we don't know how they were made does it mean that they were incapable of building them so...aliens.
Why they have names like "Touchindeez" and "Tickledeez"?
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Many of these names have since been Latinized. Their original Greek names are quite different.
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Zeno's Paradox is not a paradox from the simple observation that objects in motion will indeed hit other objects given enough time. But apparently they were not experimentalists. Thus, it amounts to a lot of mental masturbation until you get to empiricism
Indeed, much of what Aristotle declared is known to be false, because he thought he could think his way to conclusions that empirical evidence proved wrong. Logic and reasoning are useful, but you have to have the raw material of evidence for them to say anything about the real world.
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Ah, yes. I _love_ reading Ben Shap-xeno!
Hmmm....
Slapping Zeno in the face should be impossible according to Zeno. I'd be willing to take part in that experiment, just to remind Zeno that the slap he just got was surely an illusion.
In general, slapping someone in the face is an appropriate response to someone who disregards empirical evidence in order to defend the conclusions they reached solely by thinking.
For example, if you are a solipsist (of the kind who believes that other minds don't exist) you should not object to getting slapped in the face, as it was your own mind which thought of and executed that slap.
Same if you're someone who claims that prayers get answered. You pray that I don't slap you, and we test if prayer works. You never know, maybe I will concede that prayer works and the slap you just got was not a slap, after the experiment is conducted, of course.
So, slap away, kids, for science and philosophy!
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Grazie ancora una volta Gesù Cristo della chimica
Bros name was Epicurus,that's epic
How about his friend Zeno? That's just zen.
Funny how the shape of the statue of Pythagoras at 8:13 slightly resembles a triangle.
Cut your hair!!! Hippy!! LOL Good episode! other than the hair thing. :)
Zeno was a gangster
Socrates smoked his opponents
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Except Parmenides and Zeno.
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In this playlist are 5 videos that can't be played, why they are censored and what is their topic?
I release one per week!
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Gwyneth Paltrow ski crash trial had two experts arguing over a factor of 1/2 in applying Newton's laws of motion to the force needed to break ribs. One of them has made a massive howler, but which one? This was crucial evidence in the trial and the experts effectively cancelled each other out. Can you take a look at this?
According to Bertrand Russell Democritus came to his model via a thought experiment: curting an apple with a knife.
There is always a universe where everything you are doing is airing on live TV and the world is losing its mind because it's on a huge fucking network
interesting that they I guess chose the "elements of nature" based on observed states of matter, from solid "earth" liquid "water" gas "air or wind" and plasma "fire" lol
Imagine that. An impactful thinker doing a video on impactful thinkers.
I like Democritus, he was an early polymath.
Thank you for a bit of a refresher of some things that I learned in college almost 20 years ago!
Is autumn longer where you live?
Watched all of it 8:12
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ButAnd middle east man walking on water
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Just stick to science this is all wrong
No, it isn’t, and I’ll cover whatever topics I please. Stay in your lane.
I feel this guy might be biased in favor of atheism.
I didn’t write these scripts.
@@ProfessorDaveExplainsAlso Zeno wasn't a presocratic. He was post Socrates.
@@christophersnedeker False. Also, nice deflection.
@@christophersnedeker Which Zeno are you talking about? Zeno of Citium (founder of Stoicism) was post Socrates. Professor Dave was clearly referencing Zeno of Elea, who predates Socrates.
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Honestly, I looked it up and I was confused as to what he was talking about until I read your reply... so thanks. 👍🏾
Idealistic monism is untestable speculation. I don't see much value in it.