Saturday, April 24, 2010

TOK 4/26/10

1. Possibly Pythagoras defined reality as math because it is the closest idea to absolute truth. The consistency and the objectivity that fashions math contradicts with subjective truth and its emotion-contorted views.

Maybe he just simply perceived reality to revolve around math and numbers. Such as the patterns in everyday life and nature, like planet rotations and birthdays.

2. I am slightly reluctant to accept the mathmatician's claims, because I still need to know more about math in reality to firmly believe underneath it all, math is reality. However, math does seem to be resolute in nature, considering that there are routine patterns in our everyday lives. Such as the use of math in scientific ideas like seasonal patterns, and temperaments predicted by date of birth.

One thing scientists say is that women with waist-size 60-80% of their hips are by calculation the most beautiful in proportion. Among millions of subjective people, one is bound to find the 60-80 proportion unsightly. Math can be reality to a certain extent, but math can never reign over the realm of opinions or emotions.

3. Math is discovered because if no emotions are involved creativity is not involved. There is an underlying notion of math in nature and in the world that leads mathmaticians to discover a theorum. However it takes an alert mind and receptive logic to actually formulate a complex theorum such as quadratic formula (baffling for me).

4. Well if a student is to enter a prestigious academy of math they should know geometry. I agree completely with Plato.

5. Plato may have taught reality to his math students. The logical students branched off by discovering formulas for themselves.

6. Immanuel Kant stated that humans are limited in knowledge, and only have access to the realm of math and science. He probably believed this because people can not have access to metaphysics, which is like getting access to the absolute truth. He stated that people are constrained by what can be experienced, and metaphysical experiences, beyond the natural world, is practically impossible.

7. Frege deals with the language ways of knowing because his major was semantics.

A) “Subtract B from both sides” – You can’t subtract random numbers from each other.

B) The hole comes from strange configurations.

C) Miss Miranda can take the apple.

No D

E) It can be done by ordering them by 29.

F) It is simple if the connections go around the whole picture.

G) It has to be 6 because 4 X 4 is 16.

H) 7 Regions?



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