Jiang defines the first simplified difference as rationalism versus empiricism: Plato seeks truth through pure thought, while Aristotle seeks it through observation and induction.
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Induction
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...
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"...only access the truth through observation and what we call empiricism. Induction. Okay? Inductive logic. All right? So if I see a woman wearing..."
"...world. Now, the entire basis of science is the idea called induction. If I see a white swan a thousand times, I can then..."
"...out of the tragedy of suffering. Now, instead, it's like any induction of suffering, any punishment, any putting down the law is bad, and..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...
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Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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