Beauty And Mathematics | Professor Alexander Pruss
The Thomistic Institute
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The Disadvantages of Causality in Mathematics
Thomas has this distinction between curiosity to us, which you might try to translate as curiosity, but it's probably not quite accurate. And the difference is the curiosity, the bad head of curiosity, you're just wanting to know more and more facts. Whereas in studiousness, the virtue that the mind is in a sort of virtue up until like total investigation, you're trying to put things together into an explanatory framework. Sometimes we feel like we know why something in mathematics is true when we give it a proof. We've got great evidence that's conclusive evidence that's true, but we still feel like we don't really know why.
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