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Thanks. Now go check the "History" section of that article; which, by the way, takes up about half of it.

• mbivert 2y ago
  Alright. I'm trying to come up with other examples, but as the parent said, it then depends how pedantic we want to be e.g. take Poincaré's spacetime, but he'd still be working from two pre-existing ideas, "space" and "time"; the idea of combining the two is (feels?) quite novel and unexpected. Going back some more, the notion of "space" (or that of "time") feels more primitive, less explainable in terms of other notions.
  • moralestapia 2y ago
    Yes, but the whole "combine things and see if they make other thing make sense" seems to me like a procedure that may be reproduced by pattern matching at a very large scale.