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Euclid - a name, along with Newton, Einstein, etc. We don't say Geometry Theta, we say Euclidean Geometry, Newtonian physics, etc. Why speak of them at all?
by apocalypstyx 7y ago
Euclid - a name, along with Newton, Einstein, etc. We don't say Geometry Theta, we say Euclidean Geometry, Newtonian physics, etc. Why speak of them at all? Why not the ideas divorced from the men (and the few women)?
The Bible - Promulgated mainly (for the most substantial part of its history) by those contending its ultimate authorship lay with God. And any appellation of greater significance would likely prove difficult to procure.
>Bitcoin Whitepaper published under a pseudonym.
Is this now Milton's competition?
> "Objective" doesn't imply "simple"
Yet simple enough to be described surely, to be circumscribed with pen and paper, surely, because if not, how is it known to be such? Or do we accept as fact the intuitions of those who had nothing more?
And if it is not the name that stands predominant, why should we fear veritas ex machina?