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John Trevor Berger

September 2023

On the Role of Irreducible Wholeness in Transcorporeal Physics
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June 2023

May 2023

The Quantitative and the Qualitative
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John Trevor Berger
On phenomenology and the Delphic injunction
Robert Sokolowski once wrote: “phenomenology is reason’s self-discovery in the presence of intelligible objects.” This pointed definition hits the…
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November 2022

On the mythology of Absolute Certainty
It may be vital to our sanity that the distant past should be to us shrouded in mystery. What ever the reasons, since the 19th century ‘mystery’ has…

July 2022

On reason and intellect
Two basic principles: ratio and intellectus. Ratio is ‘reasoning’ properly so called, aimed at the acquisition of a particular ‘result’. Intellectus, on…
In the spirit of Thomas Jefferson
Jeffersonian reformulations of two famous presidential sayings...

June 2022

A note on the metaphysical import of algebra
Algebra found its way into modern mathematics by way of the early-modern rediscovery of Diophantus of Alexandria, who appropriated it from the Arabs…
The gods of modernity
Be they of Nature or of the State, the ‘gods’—those beings, whether real or imaginary, that man regards as the greatest and the best in the world; and…
Scholium on Medieval Cosmography
The notion that pre-Copernican cosmology betrayed some kind of ‘hubris’ on our part—vis-à-vis our place in the larger scheme of things—could not be more…
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