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. . . . . “No matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.” With this, Popper dismissed the idea that the truth of any nontrivial hypothesis can be established through any amount of supporting evidence. The criticism was a re-articulation of David Hume’s Problem of Induction, posed over two hundred years before. But Popper proposed a solution. He argued that the only logically valid path to certain knowledge is ‘refutation’ -- a single instance of a black swan would be enough to disprove the hypothesis that all swans are white. Hence, scientists should not strive to confirm hypothesis, but to refute them. ` Page 18

The 14th Dalai Lama, His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso

Raphael's painting Plato, possibly based on Leonardo

. . . Jonathan Smith has pointed out, in Darwin’s books about botany, there is something about Darwin’s preoccupation with the ordinary that extends beyond realism. Darwin’s preoccupation with the aberrant and the unique and the grotesque (as traces of indicators of large movements and significances) extends in the botany books to the study of plants that are truly, as Smith put it, “macabre,” plants that trapped, killed and ate insects;. . . bizarrely ornamented, gaudy colored, fantastically structured flowers that lured insects into unwittingly effecting cross-fertilization: and. . . species with various sexual forms and multiple reproductive possibilities. While these works also embodied a realistic spirit, the literature of the day that most looked like Darwin’s botany was not the realistic novel of Trollope and Eliot, but the “sensation fiction” that flourished in those same decades, the thrilling novels full of shocking crimes and illicit sexuality by Wilkie Collins, Mary Braddon, and others. ~ Page 127

my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/16638-e-coli-infection Escherichia coli (E. coli) is a bacteria that normally lives in the intestines of both healthy people and animals. In most cases, this bacteria is harmless. It helps digest the food you eat. However, certain strains of E. coli can cause symptoms including diarrhea, stomach pain and cramps and low-grade fever. Some E. coli infections can be dangerous.

Johann Gottfried Herder, by Angelika Kauffmann, 1791 plato.stanford.edu/entries/herder

Image from NASA www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDHS2aWcV9U

Women in traditional ceremonial dress performing during celebration of the Inca Winter Solstice festival, Inti Taymi (Keren Su/Corbis)

This outstanding surviving example of an early press shows the carriage open, exposing the type laid out on the forme* below. Hanging from the side of the press is the soft sponge used to ink the type. Beams anchor the press to the ceiling of the workshop * = a body of type secured in a chase for printing.

English is a river. Its content is always changing and it has many tributaries. Its characteristics include impermanence. Indeed, there can be no single definition of the English language. This conclusion applies across history and across countries. It's not only the language that's different now. So are the speakers. In the middle of the last century, around 400 million people spoke English. The total is now 1.5 billion, while the proportion of them living in Britain, North America and Australasia has declined. There is no historical parallel for this growth in English usuage and the shift in the language's center of gravity. English has become a global language not through any inherent virtues but because of the political and economic power of successively the British Empire and the United States. ~

iep.utm.edu/kierkega Either or Link: SØREN KIERKEGAARD img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/36ba381a-9850-4782-a471-dbe0bfa3c3b6/downloads/Either_or%20-%20S%C3%B8ren%20Kierkegaard%20(pdf).pdf?ver=1611846256813 The Function of Prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. ~ Soren Kierkegaard

NATURAL HISTORY OF RELIGION oll.libertyfund.org/title/robertson-the-natural-history-of-religion

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www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Explore/Tomb-of-the-Unknown-Soldier Action without a name, a “who” attached to it, is meaningless whereas an artwork retains its relevance whether or not we know the master’s name. Let me remind you of the monuments to the Unknown Soldier after World War I. They bear testimony to the need for finding a “who,” an indetifiable somebody whom four years of mass slaughter should have revealed. The unwillingness to resign oneself to the brutal fact that the agent of the war was actually nobody inspired the erection of the monuments to the unknown ones -- that is to all those whom the war had failed to make known, robbing them thereby, not of their achievement, but of their human dignity. ~ Page 305 (Excerpt: Chapter: Labor, Work, Action ~ “Thinking Without Banister” ~ Hannah Arendt

The first thing we found was that conversation groups are not infinitely large. In fact, there appears to be a decisive upper limit of about four on the number of individuals who can be involved in a conversation. The next time you are at a social gathering such as a reception or a party, take a look around you. You will see that conversation begin when two or three individuals start talking to each other. In due course, other individuals will join them one by one. As each does so, the speaker and the listeners try to involve them in the conversation, directing comments to them or simply moving to allow them to join the circle. However, when the group reaches five people, things start to go wrong. The group becomes unstable: despite all efforts (and groups often do try),, it proves impossible to retain the attention of all the members. Instead, two individuals will start talking to each other, setting up a rival conversation within the group. Eventually, they will break away to start a new conversation group. This is a remarkably robust feature of humans conversational behaviour, and I guarantee that you will see it if you spend a few minutes watching people in social settings. ~ Page 121