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Richard Dawkins' response to “What scientific idea is ready for retirement?"
Essentialism—what I’ve called "the tyranny of the discontinuous mind"—stems from Plato, with his characteristically Greek geometer’s view of things. For Plato, a circle, or a right triangle, were ideal forms, definable mathematically but never realised in practice. A circle drawn in the sand was an imperfect…
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| Aug 31, 2014 | Richard Dawkins' response to “What scientific idea is ready for retirement?" by __Joker | 101 | 71 |
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- secondbreakfast · May 12, 2020
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