Note the "Gödel alleges conspiracy" section! "The Latin term characteristica universalis, commonly interpreted as universal characteristic, or universal character in English, is a universal and formal language imagined by the German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz able to express mathematical, scientific, and metaphysical concepts. Leibniz thus hoped to create a language usable within the framework of a universal logical calculation or calculus ratiocinator."
"There is an old saying that God created everything according to weight, measure, and number. But there are things which cannot be weighed, those namely which have no force or power. There are also things which have no parts and hence admit of no measure. But there is nothing which is not subordinate to number. Number is thus a basic metaphysical figure, as it were, and arithmetic is a kind of statics of the universe by which the powers of things are discovered."
""" We have to begin with Hegel, because before him there really was no true history of philosophy. And Hegels work itself must be taken as a whole: The True is the Whole. If you abstract one piece of the system say, the Logic you falsify both whole and the part. In every one of Hegels works, he emphasises its relation to the history of philosophy. In the system, all the stages of that history appear as aspects (moments), each bound up with a particular stage of the history of society. Each philosophers work is its own time expressed in thought, representing simultaneously a stage of development of society and of societys consciousness of itself. So the history of philosophy is inseparable from the philosophy of history, which traces the unfolding of Spirit, that is, of an entire way of life. For Hegel, each time can be expressed in thought because thought, Spirit, was the primary determining factor in historical movement. """
Red and Blue staters fight over religion, moral values and the culture. But philosopher Simon Blackburn sees something deeper -- a war over the very nature of truth.
