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Popper, two carts and a hot air balloon

שו”תCategory: generalPopper, two carts and a hot air balloon
asked 8 years ago

Hello and have a good week!
I recently read excerpts from an article by Popper, which were cited by Professor Benjamin Fine in his book ‘The Poverty of Heresy’ (did the Rabbi read it?), and because I saw that they were similar to the Rabbi’s conclusion in his huge book ‘Two Carts and a Hot Air Balloon’, I said to upload them here for the Rabbi’s perusal (even though the cinematics of ‘rationality’ and ‘deviance’ are not as defined by the Rabbi).
“His [the scientist’s] intuition is his mystical ability to penetrate the nature of things, and no more than logical reasoning, and it is what makes him a great scientist… Creativity is a completely irrational quality, it is a mystical quality.”
Incidentally, in the book there, Fine cites a letter from Einstein against Kant’s method (in response to David Hume), and Einstein explicitly writes that the answer to Hume is to assume that there is a factor – God – who creates order, intelligence, and lawfulness (as the rabbi says).
In general, the book contains many fundamental things that are very consistent with what the rabbi wrote in his two carts.
And I only came to warn.


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מיכי Staff answered 8 years ago
Thanks for the words. Regarding Einstein, it’s interesting, because the impression that emerges from his writings is that he did not believe in a personal God but in a kind of pantheism (like Spinoza). In any case, as I wrote in my book God Plays Dice, there is no particular interest in clarifying what Einstein thought unless he had arguments. Otherwise, it is an argument for the person and not for the substance of the matter.

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שמואל replied 8 years ago

Indeed, I completely agree that it is not important to know what the ”greats” thought, but whether the claims hold water.

In ”A Because it is interesting, I brought this up incidentally. I will point out that I did not see the things in person now and wrote based on memory. And I may not have been accurate.

ישי replied 8 years ago

It seems to me that Einstein believed in pantheism precisely because it would solve such problems for him. On the other hand, he didn't want to believe in another factor, so he introduced it into the system. That's the idea of pantheism.

A replied 8 years ago

Einstein explicitly said he was not a pantheist.
He seems to have been a deist or agnostic.

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