Thursday, January 26, 2017

Here's an ancient philosophy so simple even a 5-year-old could understand it

The great Richard Feynman said that if someone can't explain something simply to a novice -- at the freshman lecture level -- it's because they don't actually understand it themselves. This is not only a true statement but it's also passing indictment of most of academia. I would argue that it also happens to indict most of what's described as of "philosophy" today. Something like physics is complicated by nature of that fact that it often requires the understandings of several other fields Read more...

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