Category: Enlightenment
“The best way to learn vocabulary is from context.” Why is that sometime not true?
Because sometimes you have no clue what the context says
How to translate math equations back to emotions?
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things Henri Poincaré, in The future of Mathematics, 1908 Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing Unknown poet, in response to Poincaré This post is basically the article Making concrete analogies and big pictures, with just different title. For […]
Making concrete analogies and big picture
When a politician says that voting for independence “would be like leaving an ocean liner for a lifeboat, without paddles, on a stormy sea”, a researcher in the crowd will yell at the top of their lungs: Their skeptics is good and necessary, because with just a little carelessness the analogy will become a fallacy. […]