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Inventing the Universe: Plato's Timaeus, the Big Bang, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge (Suny Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy)
Inventing the Universe Plato's Timaeus the Big Bang and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge - Suny Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy
Author: Luc Brisson, F. Walter Meyerstein
The "irrational gap" between perception and explanation can be appraised historically and identified in three stages: Plato's Timaeus furnishes the first example of a scientific theory dealing with a realm of ideality that cannot be derived from immediate sensible perception; the Big Bang model is constituted on the basis of the purely geometric...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780791426913
ISBN-10: 0791426912
Publication Date: 7/1995
Pages: 193
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Publisher: State University of New York Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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