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• 1 Lecture 1 : New Under The Sun

• 1.1 Popper

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• Logic of Scientific Discovery:

  No Logic. Computers can do logic. Computers cannot discover.

• 2 Meno's Paradox

• 2.1 Plato's Theory

• How do most socratic dialogues end?

  A Priori

• 2.2 Meno's paradox

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• Criticism of Meno's tacit assumption

  Fallacy of equivocation. Know can mean a vague ideo of knowing where to look

• 2.2.2.1 Inquiry

• How does inquiry work

  It recapitulates things already known; no new knowledge

• 2.2.2.2 Theory of representation

• What is the theory of recollection

  Transcendent wolrd of forms(met) + souls have seen these forms and we may tretrieve answers to non-empirical question from within our souls(ep)

• How does Plato dismiss empirical questions?

  It is all about the transcent wordt of forms

• 2.3 Aristotle

• What is Aristotles metaphysics?

  Immanent form(universals) in this world. These are properties  independent of our observations.

• What is Aritotle's traditional reading? (how to know immanent form

  Experience and abstraction. Science is demonstrative knowledge deductively inferred from first principles.

• 2.4 1277: birth of modern science

• Whereto led the condemnation of Moderate Aristotlelians and averroists?

  Double truth: science and theology

• What did the condemnation of Tempier anticipates?

  The two contexts of discovery and justification. Experience towards first principles, from then on built into demonstrative knowledge