Tag: Thales of Miletus
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Literacy, Numeracy, and Philosophy – Part 2
As I state in Part 1, literacy can be defined as the human ability to read and write. I also state numeracy can be defined as the human ability to understand and work with numbers. And while the historical foundations of numeracy are arithmetic and geometry, mathematical literacy expands into algebra, trigonometry, probability, statistics, and…
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Dust and Ashes of Ash Wednesday
Studies of starlight reveal that everything we can observe in space is made of the same matter as things on Earth. All matter is made up of atoms. The nucleus of each atom is composed of smaller particles called protons and neutrons, and the nucleus of each atom is surrounded by a cloud of electrons.…