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According to Socrates, knowledge does not depend on our use of names but on our relationship with things and even more so with ideas. Logos is the world of ideas, and nothing was nearer to the ancient philosopher than the conflict of personal freedom and individuality with established tradition. On the basis of the beliefs of the council of 500, Athens, the democratic polis, condemned the man who preached the freedom of thought and of the individual.
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From “Future of Human Roles in the Emerging Age of Information”, April 4, 2014; Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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Idem.
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Situated in the lower Euphrates, Uruk, Ur and Eridu were the three main cities around which developed the great Sumerian civilization. The invention of writing helped in changing the then prevailing culture.
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Allegedly because no two things are more equal than a pair of parallels.
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From “Future of Human Roles in the Emerging Age of Information”, April 4, 2014; Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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Du devenir in Louis Pasteur's words.
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The movement of solar light is dissymmetric.
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From the commander of the French forces in Germany.
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Idem.
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Chorafas, D.N. (2015). Education for Science and Technology. In: Science and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09189-1_5
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