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A Philosopher Looks at Science/

                                      Armando de la Torre

 

- For English speaking people science is mostly mathematics.
- In all the other European language science is a system of knowledge, a specialization of knowledge.

- 1543 - Copernicus published his main work.

- The stars were fixed for the Greek thinkers and astronomers.
- The word planet comes from the Greek word PLANETI which means wanderer, vagabond.



- Nothing has developed itself like the capacity of humanity.

- In the long story of the cosmos, man has been the most important factor

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"EL HOMBRE ES LA MEDIDA DE TODAS LAS COSAS" "MAN IS THE MEDIUM FOR EVERYTHING"



​- Every movement ends in a stationary position (GREEK THOUGHT)

- There is no such thing as an ultimate stationary or movement state, everything in the universe is constantly moving. (MODERN THOUGHT)



- Through color we can define things



-History was the first social science, and more of them were included later, such as sociology, psychology, anthropology and above all, economy.

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- Bronowski was physicist and afterwards he became a biologist with a little bit of psychology and sociology.

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- In the 1700, the father of physics was Newton, and the father of biology was Darwin.



- (The first psychological science lab was built in 1879. When we're conscious of a feeling or a sensation. )



- The mind is a complex system composed of sensations materially interpreted through neurons.



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- ​"La rebelión de las masas" José Ortega

 

- The 19th century was the century of elites. 

- The time of equality.











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