Sublime

but from the study of logic and mathematics. It’s a very weird framework that doesn’t come out of empiricism, but of a certain kind of armchair philosophizing that turned out to be very useful. So the minimality expectations can be dropped. You could have a very, very cumbersome computational system that produces the correct output. So that’s unlik

Locke comprit que les puissances (powers) de l’esprit réclamaient, pour se développer, des incitations sociales et des modèles. Le mécanisme s’éduque ! Il insistait dès lors sur le rôle de l’imitation et du jeu. Une éducation bien comprise doit user de jeux à la fois libres et laborieux, mais elle doit réserver une place à l’imitation spontanée. Ce

Few scientists have done more to refute the myth of the asocial infant than Andrew Meltzoff, whose work in childhood development, psychology, and neuroscience over the past several decades has lent support to Girard’s discovery.

The philosopher A.N. Whitehead suggested that learning happens in three stages: first there is romance, then there is precision and then comes generalisation. Something similar happens with ideas.

Fortunately, the prevailing theory of scientific knowledge, which in its modern form is due largely to the philosopher Karl Popper (and which is one of my four ‘main strands’ of explanation of the fabric of reality), can indeed be regarded as a theory of explanations in this sense. It regards science as a problem-solving process.

The real situation is that people need inexplicit knowledge to understand laws and other explicit statements, not vice versa. Philosophers and psychologists work hard to discover, and to make explicit, the assumptions that our culture tacitly makes about social institutions, human nature, right and wrong, time and space, intention, causality, freed