Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Sign of Four', 'Farewell to Reality: fairytale physics' and 'Toward a Philosophy of History'

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6 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / h. Dasein (being human)
For man, being is not what he is, but what he is going to be [Ortega y Gassett]
14. Science / C. Induction / 1. Induction
If you eliminate the impossible, the truth will remain, even if it is weird [Conan Doyle]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
Instead of having a nature, man only has a history [Ortega y Gassett]
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields
A 'field' is a property with a magnitude, distributed across all of space and time [Baggott]
Fields can be 'scalar', or 'vector', or 'tensor', or 'spinor' [Baggott]
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / b. Standard model
The current standard model requires 61 particles [Baggott]