Practical Understanding Vs. Intellectual Understanding July 17, 2020 Practical understanding of let’s say Newton’s Physics is of the type which is offered by the text books. Students understand the statements of laws…
Realism of Plato is an extreme form of Idealism July 15, 2020 Plato, in a spurious sense, is often regarded as a ‘realist’ since he assigned ‘real’ status to his ‘forms’. However, he is a proponent…
Socrates Saved Philosophy from Ruining July 14, 2020 Due to the rise of Sophistry, Philosophy had lost meaning and reputation. Socrates was the first to realize that argumentative method was in a…
Father of Physics: Aristotle July 11, 2020 Father of Physics is Aristotle. He made physics a separate discipline. Modern Physics developed only out of critical inquiry of the Aristotelian ideas. It…
Creative Ideas: Making Analogies is the key July 10, 2020 Creativity is making analogies. This is the key. And analogy is to fuse two disjointed sets of information to make into a new. We…
Examples of Non-Philosophical Thinking July 8, 2020 Non Philosophical thinking is disjointed and non-comprehensive. Mainly the focus is only on particular issues or problems. Overall it is non-critical and tends to…
The difference of Materialism and Realism July 6, 2020 Realism is view point that external things are real and exist independently of mind. Materialism as opposed to idealism is that it is material…
Were Dunning & Kruger Competent for theorizing their DK effect? May 19, 2020 Dunning Kruger effect, which theorizes that incompetent people tend to think that they are more competent, itself seems to be an example of a…
“Finite” from the point of view of “infinity” February 23, 2020 “Infinite” is not a number. There are two types of infinities. 1,2,3,…….. — (This is “never ending”) n/0 — (This is “never happening”) “Never…
Is whatever imagined possible or real? December 1, 2019 Actually … Whatever can be imagined is possible. But there are two kinds of imaginations. First is simply imagining a unique unreal object like…