PSYCO303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Daniel Dennett, Tetractys, Hyperbole
12 Dec 2018
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Pythagoras did live, but much of what we know about him is hyperbole and speculation because it was written down centuries after his death. The philosopher daniel dennett has made a distinction between. One could postulate the neat/fuzzy distinction is a fundamental personality split in human beings. Strings and standing waves (a wave that retains its form on the. Pythagoras used the perfect fifth as the basis for the division. The relationship between frequency and pitch is logarithmic. Divided the scale into 12 semitones that were exactly equal. Founded in the idea that the heavens were arranges in distances that mapped onto musical harmonies: the music of the spheres. Importance of opposites - pairs of opposites were crucial for defining experience. Formal proofs revealed that there are eternal truths (facts that stand independently of anyone"s viewpoint or knowledge) Use simple formal models to explain the complex structure of the world and of our minds.
