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• Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether…
• ...while there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by…
• I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!
• No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.
• The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a…

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