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13 Jul 08

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  • William James:

    Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?

    Pragmatism (1907)
22 Jun 08

Quote Details: Umberto Eco: I have come to... - The Quotations Page

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

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  • I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
28 Sep 06

The World's Fair: Auden, Science, and Nature (on the Infinite Variability of Socio-cultural Dynamics)

  • I've recently been reading How Nature Speaks: The Dynamics of the Human Ecological Condition, edited by a Finnish guy, Yrjo Haila, and an American, Chuck Dyke.



    Says Richard Levins, the Harvard ecologist, and the top-name back-cover blurbe, the book does this: "...philosophical explorations, metaphorical musings, case histories of community action seen in the light of systems dynamics, and mathematical exposition of non-linear dynamics in clear intuitive terms all converge to help us see the richness of ecology as the paradigmatic science for understanding complexity. And yes, this book is necessary."

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