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Into nature? Got a thing for drama? It’s waiting…
This Halloween, take a tour with NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration site of some of the most terrifying and ‘mind’-blowing destinations in our galaxy. In this image, the nightmare world of HD 189733 b is the...
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Lenin: the recent revolution in natural science, and philosophical idealism –...
“Matter has disappeared” (continued) The opinions expressed by Bogdanov in 1899 regarding “the immutable essence of things”, the opinions of Valentinov and Yushkevich regarding “substance”, and so...
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Hegel the consummate Neoplatonist 13q
13.6.6 The cognition of absolute truth – God is a Proclean ‘syllogism’ (continued) For the Neoplatonist, as discussed (4., 10.7, 10.9.1, 11.3.11.8, 13.6.5.1), there are two types of knowledge,...
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Formal reason: ‘Since fire is the rapid acquisition of oxygen, and since oxygen is a key indicator of life, fire on any planet would be an indicator of life on that planet.’ Dialectical reason: To...
View ArticleThe Sydney Morning Herald – where journalism outdoes science
Washington; AP, with Liam Mannix, ‘Humanity stares into black hole abyss’, The Sydney Morning Herald 12.04.19 ‘…The black hole is about 6 billion times the mass of our sun and is in a galaxy called...
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Hello Moshe, I’m sorry I haven’t replied to you earlier. I wanted to sit with your question. And I could sit with it a great deal longer. Mysticism for me is the deepest feeling for and orientation to...
View ArticleLenin on matter: part six
The fundamental characteristic of materialism is that it starts from the objectivity of science, from the recognition of objective reality reflected by science, whereas idealism needs “detours” in...
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‘Now, because it has only phenomenal knowledge for its object, this exposition seems not to be Science, free and self-moving in its own peculiar shape; yet from this standpoint it can be regarded as...
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