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These are inventions of the human mind. The scientific knowledge of the universe is entirely composed in a series of axioms and rules of inference underlying a formalized system. There is no logical relationship between the sensible perception of a world of becoming and the formalized system of axioms known as a \"scientific explanation.\"  The \"irrational gap\" between perception and explanation can be appraised historically and identified in three stages: Plato's Timaeus furnishes the first example of a scientific theory dealing with a realm of ideality that cannot be derived from immediate sensible perception; the Big Bang model is constituted on the basis of the purely geometrical notion of symmetry; and in the more recent Algorithmic Theory of Information, the analysis of the purely symbolic language expressing physical reality reveals the level of complexity of any given theory formulated in this language. The result is that the probability of the universe actually conforming with simple mathematics is zero.  In a formal system, a theorem contains more information than can be found in the set of axioms of this system, and it remains undecidable. In Aristotle' s language, the theorems that can be proved within a theoretical model are already potentially contained in the system of axioms underlying these theorems.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50480939925777,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50480940318993,"sku":"CIN0791426920G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51461892669713,"sku":"CIN0791426920VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52126023778577,"sku":"NLS9780791426920","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0791426920.jpg?v=1750883096"},{"product_id":"sexe-incertain-book-luc-brisson-9782251324456","title":"Le Sexe Incertain","description":"En Grece ancienne et a Rome jusqu'a la fin de la Republique, les etres humains et les animaux qui passaient pour etre pourvus des deux sexes etaient impitoyablement elimines, comme des monstres, comme des signes funestes envoyes aux hommes par les dieux pour annoncer la destruction de l'espece humaine. Expulsee de la realite ou maintenue en marge, la bisexualite, entendue comme possession des deux organes sexuels, joua pourtant un role important dans le mythe, qu'il s'agisse de bisexualite simultanee, ou de bisexualite successive. La bisexualite simultanee caracterise des etres qui sont des archetypes, des etre primordiaux. Dans la mesure ou c'est d'eux que derivent les dieux, les hommes et les animaux qui, pourvus d'un seul sexe, masculin ou feminin, constituent notre monde, ces archetypes doivent etre pourvus simultanement des deux sexes, car ils se trouvent en-deca de cette sexion . En l'etre humain, le souvenir de cet etat primordial suscite une nostalgie qui s'exprime avec une profonde emotion dans le mythe qu'Aristophane raconte dans le Banquet de Platon. Chaque couple, heterosexuel ou homosexuel, aux moments les plus intenses de ses unions intermittentes, desire realiser une impossible fusion permanente qui le ramenerait a cet etat anterieur ou l'etre humain etait double. La bisexualite successive revet une signification tres differente. Sont affectes successivement des deux sexes, des mediateurs et essentiellement des devins, tel Tiresias. Le fait qu'il ait ete d'abord un homme, puis une femme avant de redevenir un homme lui permet d'etablir un rapport entre le monde des hommes et celui des femmes. Tout se passe donc comme si un etre qui transcende les oppositions (hommes \/ dieux; ne \/mort) autour desquelles s'articule la realite devait symboliser cette transcendance dans l'opposition la plus importante pour l'etre humain: l'opposition entre l'homme et la femme. Luc Brisson est directeur de recherches au CNRS. Il a publie de nombreux travaux consacres a la philosophie et la religion grecques. Aux Belles Lettres, on lui doit notamment, avec F. Walter Meyerstein, Puissance et limite de la raison. Le Probleme des valeurs (1995) et, avec Alain Segonds, la Vie de Pythagore de Jamblique (nouvelle edition, 2008).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50483015385361,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50483015909649,"sku":"GOR013803367","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/2251324453.jpg?v=1751414733"},{"product_id":"plato-the-myth-maker-book-luc-brisson-9780226075198","title":"Plato the Myth Maker","description":"We think of a myth as a fictional story, and Plato was the first to use the term \"muthos\" in that sense. But Plato also used \"muthos\" to describe the practice of making and telling myths, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of this text, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted and not uncritical description of \"muthos\" in light of the latter's famous Atlantis story. The second part of the book contrasts this sense of myth, as Plato does, with another form of speech which he believed was far superior: the \"logos\" of philosophy. Brisson's work is part lexical, part philosophical, and part ethnological, and Gerard Naddaf's substantial introduction shows the originality and importance both of Brisson's method and of Plato's analysis in the context of contemporary debates over the origin and evolution of the oral tradition.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50930127274257,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50930127765777,"sku":"GOR008193011","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52166466994449,"sku":"CIN0226075192G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226075192.jpg?v=1751070159"},{"product_id":"how-philosophers-saved-myths-book-luc-brisson-9780226075358","title":"How Philosophers Saved Myths","description":"In this concise but wide-ranging study, Luc Brisson describes how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. 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