Epistemology.
Quick Hits
10 random key ideas.
2.
Quote:
- Karl Popper.
- 1963.
Meaning:
Human knowledge grows through refinement, but certainty remains out of reach; rational confidence must be calibrated, not declared.
3.
From History: Lived from 1861 to 1925, aged 64.
Waldorf schools often use natural play spaces because Steiner’s education valued nature, sensory experience, imagination, and the development of the whole child.
5.
Quote:
- Carl Sagan.
- 1979.
Meaning:
Embrace a secular approach to your spirituality. It grounds awe and meaning in observable human experience. For sure, judge spiritual claims against measurable effects.
6.
From History: The abstractions of life.
Schemas are mental categories across frameworks that simplify life. To think well, challenge them. Keep what fits, update or drop the rest.
7.
Math is discovered in the structure of the Material World but invented in the symbolic systems minds use to describe that structure.
8.
Quote:
- E. H. Carr.
- 1961.
Meaning:
Carr’s 1961 quote reminds us that facts do not become history by themselves. History emerges when evidence is selected, organized, interpreted, and placed into a meaningful story.
9.
From History: 1946
Collingwood helped show that history is not just collecting facts. It is the disciplined reconstruction of past human thought and action from surviving evidence.
10.
Academic paper summary:
What makes an idea true? Truth is successful alignment between our representations and a determinate, mind-independent reality.
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