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History versus Physics, with Isabela Granic and Sam Biagetti

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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Is Socrates Moving on to the Experimental Sciences?

In Homer, you've got this specificity, and then the specificity of it leads to a greater whole. Whereas in Plato, there's a whole, like basically the parts only exist. In Socrates where he's only interested in concepts, right? This is precisely the opposite of what the Buddha is saying. And I do think it relates to the difference between the historical and the experimental sciences.

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