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 Topic: Francis Fukuyama |
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| PeterLafreniere Replies: 16 Views: 3047 |
 Forum: Art of Prediction Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 8:36 pm Subject: Francis Fukuyama |
| I thought Fukutama's thesis was mankind's ideological evolution has reached it's max and that liberal democracy is the final step in the evolution and that it will be accepted by all as the most human ... | |
| Topic: Bohr, Heisenberg and Schroedinger |
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| PeterLafreniere Replies: 19 Views: 3658 |
Forum: Art of Prediction Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 9:08 pm Subject: Bohr, Heisenberg and Schroedinger |
well whatever our views on quantum mechanics, I think we can all agree on what a Bohr this reading was. 
But all puns aside, I found this reading chock full of ideas. The reading felt like ... |
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| Topic: Einstein! |
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| PeterLafreniere Replies: 23 Views: 3918 |
Forum: Art of Prediction Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:39 pm Subject: Einstein! |
| I don't feel I can speak to anyone's questions about the actual theories and relativity of the physics written about in the reading.
The Morley-Michelson experiment accidentally helped prove that e ... |
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| Topic: Newton’s View of the world pp. 102-112 |
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| PeterLafreniere Replies: 20 Views: 3253 |
Forum: Art of Prediction Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 6:22 pm Subject: Newton’s View of the world pp. 102-112 |
| Because I don't have to take a firm stance right now, I AIN'T GONNA!
Newton was "the first person to express clearly the basis of what became the scientific method"(102) and he created th ... |
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| Topic: Microhistory! due 9/23 |
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| PeterLafreniere Replies: 26 Views: 3961 |
Forum: Art of Prediction Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:13 pm Subject: Microhistory! due 9/23 |
| In response to knaide, I agree that we will never be able to know exactly what happened in the past, but I don't think knowing exactly what happened in the past is what history is. I think it has bee ... | |
| Topic: Microhistory! due 9/23 |
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| PeterLafreniere Replies: 26 Views: 3961 |
Forum: Art of Prediction Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:05 pm Subject: Microhistory! due 9/23 |
| Like most people posting, I believe Contat wasn't a historian, but his story is most definitely history. My definition of historians involve some conscious thought that they are recording "histo ... | |
| Topic: Kant and Hegel on Cause and Effect/ Questions about K and H |
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| PeterLafreniere Replies: 9 Views: 1529 |
Forum: Art of Prediction Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:09 pm Subject: Kant and Hegel on Cause and Effect/ Questions about K and H |
| yeah I like this, I think I am going to focus on Kant, but try to still get specifics on Hegel.
I hope that more people read and post so we can get an idea of who is doing what. Mainly so we don ... |
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| Topic: Kant and Hegel, Take One |
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| PeterLafreniere Replies: 21 Views: 3402 |
Forum: Art of Prediction Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:49 pm Subject: Kant and Hegel, Take One |
| A priori is a fact we accept, because in Kant's philosophy, there has to be some givens in order to prove knowledge, as it builds on itself and the truth has to start somewhere.
I was wondering w ... |
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| Topic: Galileo |
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| PeterLafreniere Replies: 21 Views: 3208 |
Forum: Art of Prediction Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:54 pm Subject: Galileo |
| In response to Bree and your statement about how more details lead to more of a gray area, I agree with you. I believe Eli said earlier today that questions will always lead to more questions; I inte ... | |
| Topic: Herodotus and Thucydides |
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| PeterLafreniere Replies: 29 Views: 5172 |
Forum: Art of Prediction Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:30 pm Subject: Herodotus and Thucydides |
| Herodotus had so little to work with, and was the first true historian, even if he wasn't the best. Thucydides was able to build off of Herodotus's work, and develop the recording of history, whereas ... | |
| Topic: Herodotus and Thucydides |
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| PeterLafreniere Replies: 29 Views: 5172 |
Forum: Art of Prediction Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:15 pm Subject: Father Herodotus |
| In my eyes, Herodotus is most definitely the father. Like Gyoungheui, I thought the "Father of History", would have to truly pioneer a new concept; Herodotus did this when he wrote Histori ... | |
| Topic: Due Thursday: Aristotle |
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| PeterLafreniere Replies: 22 Views: 2976 |
Forum: Art of Prediction Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 9:58 pm Subject: That Aristotle. |
| I completely lost my train of thought, but have left this in here incase someone can get something out of it...
As I read about the "Prime Mover" the top of page 11, I kept jumping from th ... |
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