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Levels of Nothing

Levels of Nothing
October 18, 2013

What’s It Like? The Science of Scientific Analogies

What’s it Like? The Science of Scientific Analogies by Chris Edwards To fully understand the significance of the argument made by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander in their new book Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking, one must first be familiar with the fence (not a…
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Levels of Nothing
September 15, 2013

Levels of Nothing

Levels of Nothing There Are Multiple Answers to the Question of Why the Universe Exists by Robert Lawrence Kuhn Nothing, of late, is something of a scandal. Physicists and philosophers debate the efficacy of quantum physics, and the value of philosophical analysis, to explain why there is Something rather than…
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