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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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hoplite
Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing

Only a few of them were dressed as Greek hoplites.

At a showing of the movie 300

—p.58 It's All Geek to Me (58) by Neal Stephenson
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prolix

Husserl is prolix, prolific, and infamously difficult to read

on Edmund Husserl, whose works Kurt Godel spent much time studying

—p.55 Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010 (38) by Neal Stephenson
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teleological

It seems to inject a teleological aspect that is not present in the older formulation

on the "action principle" evolution of Newton's laws

—p.53 Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010 (38) by Neal Stephenson
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mathematical platonism

primeness and all the other subject matter of mathematics have a reality independent of the human mind. This assumption goes under various names, one of which is Mathematical Platonism

—p.47 Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010 (38) by Neal Stephenson
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monad

Leibniz calls these mind-atoms by the name of monads.

—p.44 Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010 (38) by Neal Stephenson
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