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Inventing the Universe: Plato's Timaeus, the Big Bang, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge

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Inventing the Universe: Plato's Timaeus, the Big Bang, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge - Brisson, Luc, and Meyerstein, F Walter
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A parallel investigation of both Plato's Timaeusand the contemporary standard Big Bang model of the universe shows that any possible scientific knowledge of the universe is ultimately grounded in irreducible and undemonstrable propositions. These are inventions of the human mind. The scientific knowledge of the universe is entirely composed in a series of axioms and rules of inference underlying a formalized system. There is no logical relationship between the sensible perception of a world of becoming and the formalized ...

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Inventing the Universe: Plato's Timaeus, the Big Bang, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge 1995, State University of New York Press, Albany, NY

ISBN-13: 9780791426920

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Inventing the Universe: Plato's Timaeus, the Big Bang, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge 1995, State University of New York Press, Albany, NY

ISBN-13: 9780791426913

Hardcover