How do you interpret the quote, "Seek simplicity and distrust it" by Alfred North Whitehead?
Q. How do you interpret the quote, "Seek simplicity and distrust it" by Alfred North Whitehead?
Asked by 09Chick - Thu Dec 13 09:03:30 2007 - - 7 Answers - 0 Comments
A. It's an extension of Occam's razor which says "All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best." But overlays the principle with scientific scepticism. Always question the solution because things are not normally that simple. Occam is right for most practical purposes, but Whitehead is more right at a theoretical level. A good example is atomic theory. For most practical purposes treating the atom as the smallest particle of matter (as most scientist thought it was, for many years) is simple and works very well. However when you look more deeply the atom turns out to be a very complicated structure indeed and not at all simple.
Answered by Caliban - Thu Dec 13 09:19:06 2007
Q. How do you interpret the quote, "Seek simplicity and distrust it" by Alfred North Whitehead?
Asked by 09Chick - Thu Dec 13 09:03:30 2007 - - 7 Answers - 0 Comments
A. It's an extension of Occam's razor which says "All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best." But overlays the principle with scientific scepticism. Always question the solution because things are not normally that simple. Occam is right for most practical purposes, but Whitehead is more right at a theoretical level. A good example is atomic theory. For most practical purposes treating the atom as the smallest particle of matter (as most scientist thought it was, for many years) is simple and works very well. However when you look more deeply the atom turns out to be a very complicated structure indeed and not at all simple.
Answered by Caliban - Thu Dec 13 09:19:06 2007
what did alfred north whitehead mean by the century of genious?
Q. what did alfred north whitehead mean by the century of genious?
Asked by Matt Smith - Tue Aug 17 14:53:59 2010 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments
A. By "century of genius," Whitehead meant the 17th century, highlighted by the advent of scientists like Newton and Galileo and philosophers like Descartes who represented the dawn of the Age of Reason.
Answered by Susan - Tue Aug 17 14:59:20 2010
Q. what did alfred north whitehead mean by the century of genious?
Asked by Matt Smith - Tue Aug 17 14:53:59 2010 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments
A. By "century of genius," Whitehead meant the 17th century, highlighted by the advent of scientists like Newton and Galileo and philosophers like Descartes who represented the dawn of the Age of Reason.
Answered by Susan - Tue Aug 17 14:59:20 2010
what does Alfred North Whitehead mean by saying that:?
Q. "religion is world loyalty"
Asked by Azadeh A - Sun Dec 14 04:55:28 2008 - - 1 Answers - 1 Comments
A. That religion is based on faith in the world.
Answered by VINEGAR CLAN - Sun Dec 14 13:30:19 2008
Q. "religion is world loyalty"
Asked by Azadeh A - Sun Dec 14 04:55:28 2008 - - 1 Answers - 1 Comments
A. That religion is based on faith in the world.
Answered by VINEGAR CLAN - Sun Dec 14 13:30:19 2008
What do you understand by this clause?
Q. He gave them speech, and they became souls. -by Alfred North Whitehead from Modes of Thought (Meaing of the sentence was much profound and contextual so just wanted your explanations.) Animals do not have souls?(This is something new for me) if they really dont. How do man, evolved from animals(apes), can have?
Asked by calm_down - Wed Dec 13 10:36:58 2006 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments
A. I expect the author is referring to the moment that life begins with a soul. Animals do not have souls. they may 'think' , and react (You can teach them tricks) but do not have intimate and deep communication skills. Mr Whitehead is assuming that the soul derives from the ability to communicate with thousands of thoughts and ideas. I have another opinion: I believe that the God of the universe, the Creator, gave souls to people so that He could have fellowship with us. He made us "in His image" the Bible says in Genesis. Keep thinking deep thoughts
Answered by thisbrit - Wed Dec 13 10:53:43 2006
Q. He gave them speech, and they became souls. -by Alfred North Whitehead from Modes of Thought (Meaing of the sentence was much profound and contextual so just wanted your explanations.) Animals do not have souls?(This is something new for me) if they really dont. How do man, evolved from animals(apes), can have?
Asked by calm_down - Wed Dec 13 10:36:58 2006 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments
A. I expect the author is referring to the moment that life begins with a soul. Animals do not have souls. they may 'think' , and react (You can teach them tricks) but do not have intimate and deep communication skills. Mr Whitehead is assuming that the soul derives from the ability to communicate with thousands of thoughts and ideas. I have another opinion: I believe that the God of the universe, the Creator, gave souls to people so that He could have fellowship with us. He made us "in His image" the Bible says in Genesis. Keep thinking deep thoughts
Answered by thisbrit - Wed Dec 13 10:53:43 2006
is religion "the last refuge of human savagery"?
Q. "Religion is the last refuge of human savagery" - Alfred North Whitehead
Asked by no faith - Fri Feb 20 12:56:14 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments
A. Not at all. Human Savagery knows no bounds and can find refuge in all aspects of "civilization". If anything, religion will be the first refuge FROM human savagery. According to Christian prophesy, when Christ returns, all savagery will be done away with. Other religions have similar prophesies. Today, however, religion is still under the influence of mankind and so is still subject to human savagery.
Answered by sparc77 - Sat Feb 21 10:31:43 2009
Q. "Religion is the last refuge of human savagery" - Alfred North Whitehead
Asked by no faith - Fri Feb 20 12:56:14 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments
A. Not at all. Human Savagery knows no bounds and can find refuge in all aspects of "civilization". If anything, religion will be the first refuge FROM human savagery. According to Christian prophesy, when Christ returns, all savagery will be done away with. Other religions have similar prophesies. Today, however, religion is still under the influence of mankind and so is still subject to human savagery.
Answered by sparc77 - Sat Feb 21 10:31:43 2009
"Inert Ideas" tell me some of yours?
Q. This is open to anyone: I'm reading The Aims of Education by Alfred North Whitehead. He brings up the concept of "Inert Ideas" "In training a child to activity of thought, above all things we must beware of what I will call "inert Ideas"- that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations." ANW Tell me some of your "inert ideas" you learned throughout school, especially high school or college. tell me any of your thoughts on the reading if anyone has read it, or anything else to comment on.
Asked by :0 - Sat May 29 00:05:23 2010 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments
Q. This is open to anyone: I'm reading The Aims of Education by Alfred North Whitehead. He brings up the concept of "Inert Ideas" "In training a child to activity of thought, above all things we must beware of what I will call "inert Ideas"- that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations." ANW Tell me some of your "inert ideas" you learned throughout school, especially high school or college. tell me any of your thoughts on the reading if anyone has read it, or anything else to comment on.
Asked by :0 - Sat May 29 00:05:23 2010 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments
Should I be worried about 12/21/12? (Dec. 21st, 2012)?
Q. Some people tell me that its going to pass by like every other say, like 01/01/00 and 06/06/06, but i dont know about this one... you see. there are countless reports to this one and i dont know if i should buckle down and find my higher power or if i should just continue like its just another day. Here's my Research... The Mayan Calendar 2012 gained the patina of doom with the best-selling 1966 book "The Maya" by Harvard archaeologist Michael D. Coe. He noted that the Mayan culture's famously complex "Long Count" calendar simply ends on 12/21/12, speculating that civilization might come crashing down on that date. Other scholars argue, however, that the Mayan calendar would merely flip over like an odometer that reached 100,000 miles. … [cont.]
Asked by princekaze4 - Sun Jun 21 00:32:27 2009 - - 7 Answers - 0 Comments
A. Let's get together for a beer and discuss it on 22 Dec. 2012. You have one culture ending their cycle on that date (it had to end some time, didn't it?) and a bunch of kooks tying in their own delusions and out-and-out inventions to it. I am especially amused by the citation of the I Ching. That is not a predictive mechanisms. It is written in vague enough language that you can see whatever you want to see in the images described. That makes it good for making decisions but little else.
Answered by oikos - Sun Jun 21 15:19:06 2009
Q. Some people tell me that its going to pass by like every other say, like 01/01/00 and 06/06/06, but i dont know about this one... you see. there are countless reports to this one and i dont know if i should buckle down and find my higher power or if i should just continue like its just another day. Here's my Research... The Mayan Calendar 2012 gained the patina of doom with the best-selling 1966 book "The Maya" by Harvard archaeologist Michael D. Coe. He noted that the Mayan culture's famously complex "Long Count" calendar simply ends on 12/21/12, speculating that civilization might come crashing down on that date. Other scholars argue, however, that the Mayan calendar would merely flip over like an odometer that reached 100,000 miles. … [cont.]
Asked by princekaze4 - Sun Jun 21 00:32:27 2009 - - 7 Answers - 0 Comments
A. Let's get together for a beer and discuss it on 22 Dec. 2012. You have one culture ending their cycle on that date (it had to end some time, didn't it?) and a bunch of kooks tying in their own delusions and out-and-out inventions to it. I am especially amused by the citation of the I Ching. That is not a predictive mechanisms. It is written in vague enough language that you can see whatever you want to see in the images described. That makes it good for making decisions but little else.
Answered by oikos - Sun Jun 21 15:19:06 2009
How many people in here know these names?
Q. Peter Abelard Anselm of Canterbury Hannah Arendt Thomas Aquinas Aristotle Augustine of Hippo Averroes Avicenna A.J. Ayer Francis Bacon Pierre Bayle Simone de Beauvoir Jeremey Bentham George Berkeley Boethius Albert Camus Marcus Tullius Cicero Confucius Donald Davidson Democritus Rene Descartes John Dewey John Duns Scotus Ralph Waldo Emerson Epictetus Epicurus Michel Foucault Gottlob Frege G.W.F. Hegel Martin Heidegger Heraclitus Thomas Hobbes David Hume Edmund Husserl William James Karl Jaspers Immanuel Kant Soren Kierkegaard Saul Kripke Thomas Kuhn Lao Tzu Gottfried Leibniz John Locke Niccolo Machiavelli Moses Maimonides Karl Marx John Stuart Mill G.E. Moore Friedrich Nietzche Robert Nozick William of Ockham Parmenides Blaise Pascal C.S.… [cont.]
Asked by Happy Hiram - Thu Aug 6 03:39:08 2009 - - 23 Answers - 0 Comments
A. 'And which ones could you speak on with authority?' I am not their author nor am I certified by a governmentally accepted educational institution to speak on any of them. Get stuffed.
Answered by Psyengine - Thu Aug 6 19:14:06 2009
Q. Peter Abelard Anselm of Canterbury Hannah Arendt Thomas Aquinas Aristotle Augustine of Hippo Averroes Avicenna A.J. Ayer Francis Bacon Pierre Bayle Simone de Beauvoir Jeremey Bentham George Berkeley Boethius Albert Camus Marcus Tullius Cicero Confucius Donald Davidson Democritus Rene Descartes John Dewey John Duns Scotus Ralph Waldo Emerson Epictetus Epicurus Michel Foucault Gottlob Frege G.W.F. Hegel Martin Heidegger Heraclitus Thomas Hobbes David Hume Edmund Husserl William James Karl Jaspers Immanuel Kant Soren Kierkegaard Saul Kripke Thomas Kuhn Lao Tzu Gottfried Leibniz John Locke Niccolo Machiavelli Moses Maimonides Karl Marx John Stuart Mill G.E. Moore Friedrich Nietzche Robert Nozick William of Ockham Parmenides Blaise Pascal C.S.… [cont.]
Asked by Happy Hiram - Thu Aug 6 03:39:08 2009 - - 23 Answers - 0 Comments
A. 'And which ones could you speak on with authority?' I am not their author nor am I certified by a governmentally accepted educational institution to speak on any of them. Get stuffed.
Answered by Psyengine - Thu Aug 6 19:14:06 2009
The absolute truth?? how can one know if it is not merely an idea?
Q. The Absolute is the totality of things. Why do we associate that with something finished, static? like absolute morals in religions? Even if one could know the absolute, why should that imply that one is finished or that one knows all, could the absloute not also mean that you realize that itself is in change? So that there can never be any perfect understanding, never any end to reach. Would that destroy the absolute? or at least the absolute mentality that many religions especially embody. I mean religions speak of the absolute, as something independent of the universe or "outside" of it. How can one have such an understanding and be sure that it is not an idea? Sorry english is not my mother tounge? "There are no whole truths; all… [cont.]
Asked by Lorenzo de' Medici - Sat Dec 15 12:54:20 2007 - - 8 Answers - 0 Comments
A. Christians will spend their eternity's learning about God. There is too much to Him and His awesomeness has no end. And neither does any one human. But it will be spent apart from God and His awesomeness unless they accept Jesus as saviour and have forgiveness of their sins. This is the ONLY truth, the rest are rubbish and cults. Be careful.
Answered by evon. - Sat Dec 15 13:00:31 2007
Q. The Absolute is the totality of things. Why do we associate that with something finished, static? like absolute morals in religions? Even if one could know the absolute, why should that imply that one is finished or that one knows all, could the absloute not also mean that you realize that itself is in change? So that there can never be any perfect understanding, never any end to reach. Would that destroy the absolute? or at least the absolute mentality that many religions especially embody. I mean religions speak of the absolute, as something independent of the universe or "outside" of it. How can one have such an understanding and be sure that it is not an idea? Sorry english is not my mother tounge? "There are no whole truths; all… [cont.]
Asked by Lorenzo de' Medici - Sat Dec 15 12:54:20 2007 - - 8 Answers - 0 Comments
A. Christians will spend their eternity's learning about God. There is too much to Him and His awesomeness has no end. And neither does any one human. But it will be spent apart from God and His awesomeness unless they accept Jesus as saviour and have forgiveness of their sins. This is the ONLY truth, the rest are rubbish and cults. Be careful.
Answered by evon. - Sat Dec 15 13:00:31 2007
"Seek simplicity, and distrust it" (Alfred North Whitehead). Is this always good advice for a knower?
Q. opinions, anyone?
Asked by Rebecca - Wed Dec 10 23:31:32 2008 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments
A. Sometimes? Sure. Always? Certainly not. Ockham's razor wins here, except when it's wrong
Answered by vorro - Wed Dec 10 23:39:24 2008
Q. opinions, anyone?
Asked by Rebecca - Wed Dec 10 23:31:32 2008 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments
A. Sometimes? Sure. Always? Certainly not. Ockham's razor wins here, except when it's wrong
Answered by vorro - Wed Dec 10 23:39:24 2008
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