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  • Bubonic plague and Newton's best two years

    Posted on Sat Feb 21 2026 under annecdote and creativity

    How Newton developed his hallmark work in the period of two years during bubonic plague.

  • Theory of ideas

    Posted on Thu Feb 19 2026 under metaphysics and philosophy

    There is a real of Ideas, the deepest reality, which is eternal and unchanging, and provides source of all we can name or speak of. And it builds upon Pythagoras. we come into close contact with the world of eternal, perfect Ideas when we deal in mathematics concepts like numbers, or Platonic solids.

  • First principle truths

    Posted on Mon Feb 16 2026 under mental-models and metaphysics

    Self-evident truths from which all other knowledge is derived. These are the most basic truths that cannot be deduced from any other proposition. And since they are self-evident, they do not require further proof.

  • Metaphysics

    Posted on Mon Feb 16 2026 under metaphysics and philosophy

    You cannot disprove this. There is no physical experiment or logical proof that can distinguish between a universe that is billions of years old and one created five days ago

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