Platonism in Software: Why Developers Expect Perfection from Tools
Platonism is the belief that perfect abstract Forms are the true reality and the physical world is a degraded shadow. It is a useful frame for geometry class...
Knowledge topic
Philosophy
3 published knowledge pages on Philosophy.
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Philosophy Every Desire Is a Desire for an Experience
Every desire you have ever had is, at bottom, a desire for an experience. The profitable company is really the desire for the feeling of security or creative...
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Philosophy Mimetic Desire: How You Inherit Goals from Others
Rene Girard argued in Deceit, Desire, and the Novel (1961) that desire is fundamentally imitative. We rarely generate wants from scratch. Instead, we absorb ...