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Eikadistes
April 21, 2026 at 10:07 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Cassius’s post in the thread Nietzsche Agreeing With Epicurus That The Senses Do Not Lie.From Twilight of the Idols:
2 With the highest respect, I except the name of Heraclitus. When the rest of the philosophic folk rejected the testimony of the senses because they showed multiplicity and change, he rejected their testimony because they… -
Cassius
PostApril 21, 2026 at 6:41 PM Should be fixed now!
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Cassius
April 21, 2026 at 6:34 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Patrikios’s post in the thread Episode 328 - EATAQ 10 - Sensation - While Neither Right or Wrong - As The Touchstone Of Reality. -
Joshua
April 21, 2026 at 6:21 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Patrikios’s post in the thread Episode 328 - EATAQ 10 - Sensation - While Neither Right or Wrong - As The Touchstone Of Reality. -
Kalosyni
Reaction (Post)April 21, 2026 at 6:00 PM I'm more familiar with measurements of the earth from my days in Land Surveying, and the classic experiments that I can recall are these;- The Eratosthenes experiment; a fairly accurate measurement of the circumference of the earth.
- The Mason-Dixon Survey,
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Kalosyni
Reaction (Post)April 21, 2026 at 5:59 PM The full video may explain this but if someone doesn't want to watch that Wikipedia says that Aristarchus' calculations led him to conclude that the sun was 18-20 times larger than the moon. It's not clear to me whether he had a size for the moon or… -
Kalosyni
Reaction (Post)April 21, 2026 at 5:59 PM Question for math friends:
1. Given any, one planet in the observable universe, what are the chances that this planet has both (1) exactly one moon, which is also (2) the exact same apparent size as that planet's parent star?
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Patrikios
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wbernys
April 21, 2026 at 5:09 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Cassius’s post in the thread Nietzsche Agreeing With Epicurus That The Senses Do Not Lie.From Twilight of the Idols:
2 With the highest respect, I except the name of Heraclitus. When the rest of the philosophic folk rejected the testimony of the senses because they showed multiplicity and change, he rejected their testimony because they… -
Bryan
Reaction (Post)April 21, 2026 at 4:29 PM Question for math friends:
1. Given any, one planet in the observable universe, what are the chances that this planet has both (1) exactly one moon, which is also (2) the exact same apparent size as that planet's parent star?
Another question along those…
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