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F=MA
“F equals ma, are a fantastic success. They suddenly, in one swoop, show that the explanation of the motions of the planets is exactly the same thing as the explanation of why rocks fall in the…” (David Albert)
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fact value distinction
“a very modern distinction, as well as an ancient one at the time in Athens. This is sort of like the fact value distinction we make, isn't it? What do you mean? Well, okay, so I realized when I had a…” (Richard Polt)
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factorial
“bigger numbers, maybe someone has the idea of using mathematical operations, for example, a factorial. I could say a googol factorial. I could in fact put a lot of factorial symbols on the tweet. I…” (Joel David Hamkins)
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factoring
“which would be factoring, okay? So, this is an important problem. Okay, this is, again, a problem, kind of a number theory. So, I give you a number, like 100, and your job is to express it as” (Tim Roughgarden)
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faculties of the mind
“The second one is what we can do with them, the powers or the faculties of the mind. What we, uh, how we affect them. And he says the human mind, once we get an idea inside our heads, we have some…” (Lee Braver)
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faithful to the Earth
“we've had all along, is what also enables us to create new ones, better ones, ones that are faithful to the Earth instead of to some transcendent deity, that will make life better instead of…” (Lee Braver)
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false judgment
“There are several arguments that would seem to suggest that false judgment is impossible. Now, these are all bad arguments. They're all sophistical arguments, but the challenge is to explain exactly…” (Richard Polt)
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Fermat's Last Theorem
“when Andrew Wiles proved, finally, Fermat's Last Theorem. And it wasn't a shock that the theorem was correct, it was a shock that Wiles was able to prove this extremely difficult deep problem that…” (Tim Roughgarden)
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finite
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finite partial sums
“should do is maybe think about what happens to the value if we take only finitely many of those sums. This is a kind of view of the meaning of the infinite sum which has a kind of potentialist…” (Joel David Hamkins)
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finite words
“So this is usually denoted by A star, so this is the set of all finite words using letters in A.” (Joel David Hamkins)
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first cause
“A first cause, to be first, would have to be an uncaused cause. There'd have to be a cause that causes everything for it, but nothing caused it. And you know what we call that? God.” (Lee Braver)
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first meditation
“We'll start with the first meditation. He's looking for beliefs for his foundation, and his standards are ridiculously absurdly high, have to be” (Lee Braver)
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first order logic
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flux
“perception to Protagoreanism, which seems to make sense, and then he links it to this idea that everything is in flux. And he relates this to a number of philosophers and poets, but it's” (Richard Polt)
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force and vivacity
“The difference between ideas and impression, for Hume, is what he calls the relative force and vivacity. He's a wonderful writer. It, it's a little difficult for us, because it's kind of flowery, and…” (Lee Braver)
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forcing
“So this latter result was proved by Cohen with the method of forcing, which is also a model construction method. Whereas Godel had started with a model of set theory and built an inner model in which…” (Joel David Hamkins)
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foreign language
“Okay, Socrates tries some new objections. "There's the case of hearing people speaking a foreign language which we have not yet learned." Now, I happen to know that in this room there is someone who…” (Richard Polt)
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form and matter
“in Plato and Aristotle, form and matter. Matter is what things are made out of. Form is how the matter comes together to produce a particular kind of thing with a particular kind of order. Well,…” (Richard Polt)
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forms
“He gives a different name to each one of them because he has to, because it's Kant, it's gotta be complicated. Intuition has forms, two forms, space and time. What that means is we get” (Lee Braver)
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forms of intuition
“exactly what Kant says, that we have created the world for us, that our minds have imposed the forms of intuition and the concepts of understanding to create the world for us. This is a world for…” (Lee Braver)
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foundation
“And he had to get ideas to build what he called his foundation. His foundation, this was the analogy he uses throughout the book, this, this building foundation. His foundation had to be absolutely…” (Lee Braver)
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foundations of quantum mechanics
“kind of an invitation to the foundations of quantum mechanics. Offer an account of the sense in which I think there are big, interesting questions at stake here.” (David Albert)
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fractals
“the infinite coastline paradox, which leads to the concept of fractals. So, let's just give an example of a fractal here. The Koch snowflake curve. And the way it works is, you start with a line…” (Joel David Hamkins)
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Frege
“we'll move through Galileo, and then we'll see Frege, and Dedekind, and Cantor, and the 20th century thinkers of Godel and Tarski, Russell, and so on, the contemporary ideas. To my way of thinking,…” (Joel David Hamkins)
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Freud
“discipline until the end of the 19th century basically, like Breuer and then Charcot and Freud. Up until then, if you wanna do psychology, you did philosophy. It was part of philosophy. And Hume is…” (Lee Braver)
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frustum of a cone
“on this band on the outside, which if you think about it, is the, what's called the frustum of a cone. It's slightly angled, right? And the angular piece here is commonly called ds, which is the” (Joel David Hamkins)
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fundamental physics
“There are worries about the kind of image of ourselves that something like fundamental physics presents to us, worries about where our conception of ourselves as rational,” (David Albert)
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fundamental theorem
“1 over x, so we have here minus pi over x from one to infinity, and when I put in- infinity in for x, the limit will be zero, so it's zero minus, using the fundamental theorem, the value when I put…” (Joel David Hamkins)
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fundamental theorem of arithmetic
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