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Quick Hits
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4 minutes
Epistemology.
Quick Hits
10 random key ideas.
1.
Remember, all your ideas start as speculation. Even Einstein’s theory of relativity began as an irrational idea: untested, uncertain, and waiting for reality to answer back.
2.
Quote:
- Michael Alan Prestwood.
From History:
Meaning:
Frameworks are human-made interpretations, but truth is measured by alignment with a reality that exists independently of them.
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.
4.
The “universal speed limit” isn’t about light: it’s the limit for causation within our universe, even as space itself expands faster.
5.
Quote:
- Bernard of Chartres.
- circa 1130 CE.
Meaning:
Transcendental intelligence is the capacity to transmit ideas beyond individual minds and lifespans, allowing knowledge itself to accumulate across generations.
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.
Column summary:
History and fiction both tell stories; only one attempts to align with reality.
8.
Quote:
- Carl Sagan.
- 1979.
From History:
Meaning:
Embrace a secular approach to your spirituality which grounds awe and meaning in observable human experience. Judge spiritual claims against measurable effects.
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.
Words are empirical when they directly describe the material world, and rational when they help structure, organize, relate, or evaluate ideas.
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