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In Memoriam T.K. Rabb

17-Oct-19

Taitung City One of the things no one told me about having children is: as you reach the age when you are focusing on your kids and birth and new life and all of that, the world you grew up in is passing away: death comes to claim his due from your aunts and uncles, your family […]

Scientific Thinking. Historical Thinking. And ?

15-Dec-10

Jayrūd Oswald Spengler, a great and underrated philosopher, rigorously described the different modes of thinking – and hence experiencing – which constituted science and history.  From the scientific perspective, phenomena are conceived as continually possible.  If certain causes are provided, certain effects can be procured.  The hallmark of any scientific experiment is that it must be reproducible. […]