203: Bronowski's "The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination"

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

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🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

"WHAT IS MATH!?" hollers the girl on TikTok. Turns out she's right. Any system requires reference to an external system to make itself consistent, but any system is only a metaphor for the whole. Trust me, it makes sense. This is a cool episode about math and science.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody and welcome to classical stuff you should know. We are a podcast about, I don't know, the world of learning. Oh, man. And specifically older learning.
0:17.8	Not newfangled learning, which everyone else is doing.
0:21.8	We're doing the old stuff.
0:23.4	And we're trying to bring the classical world to you in fun and digestible ways.
0:28.2	My name is A.J. Hanenberg and I'm joined by Mr. Thomas Magby.
0:31.2	Hello.
0:31.8	And Graham Donaldson.
0:32.8	Hi.
0:33.4	And today we're answering the question, what is a postulate?
0:36.6	And you probably shouldn't ask bees and you shouldn't axiomy.
0:41.9	Oh, my.
0:42.2	But you should, you should axiogram.
0:46.8	Oh, my word.
0:47.7	Yeah, I nailed that one.
0:48.6	I'm going to be an apostate from this podcast.
0:52.6	Kind of.
0:53.3	Can we excommunicate?
0:54.6	I don't know.
0:55.3	Who's the Pope with the podcast?
0:57.1	It's obviously Graham.
0:58.3	Oh, sweet.
0:58.9	I think you're the Pope.
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