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Analytical Spaces

Originally posted on Creativistic Philosophy:In this article, I want to start introducing some of the basic ideas underlying the work of Kurt Ammon. Ammon is a mathematician and computer scientist...

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Describing Humans and the World

We have sense organs because we cannot know everything. If we had complete knowledge about our surroundings, we would not need to look again. But our knowledge is incomplete. So we have to look....

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A Walk through the Forest – Sources of Structure

A few minutes away from the place I am living, there is the Eilenriede forest area, right in the middle of the city. Some part of it is left to its own. No trees are felled there, rotting branches are...

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Layers of Cognition

Originally posted on Creativistic Philosophy: We might think of the world and ourselves as a layered system, like an onion. These layers have no fixed borders, they are just a way to orient ourselves...

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Explaining Creativity – A Roadmap

Originally posted on Creativistic Philosophy: The distinctions made in my previous article seem to have left some of my readers perplexed because it is not quite clear what they are good for. Well,...

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Formal Systems and Creative Systems

Each formal system, be it an algorithm, a formal theory made up of axioms and rules of inference, a formal grammar describing a set of strings of characters, or whatever kind of formalism, is a finite...

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De Thomae Aquinatis “Summa Theologica” annotamentum

Originally posted on The Bubbling of my Thoughts: (A note on Thomas Aquinas’ “Summa Theologica”) I am imagining Thomas Aquinas sitting at his desk, writing a chapter of his “Summa Theologica”… Aquinas...

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Cylinder Seals

Cylinder seals were invented in Mesopotamia around 3500 BC. They are small cylinders, often made from stone, about one inch in length, engraved with figurative scenes or written characters, or both....

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Knowledge

Knowledge arises from our interaction with reality (including ourselves and our previous knowledge). Reality is a proteon, i.e. it cannot be described completely. So at any given time, our knowledge is...

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Understanding in Hindsight

“Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing …” Henri Matisse What Matisse is talking about here may be a general feature of...

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