
Ep. 22 - Descartes vs. Hobbes
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
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The Meaning Crisis
Pascal was as great a mathematical genius as Descartes. He on his own rediscover from axioms forward recreates all of Euclidean geometry. Pascal makes a distinction with what he calls the spirit of geometry. And this is a theme, this Pascalian theme, as you've been seeing it running through this history.
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