Despite the passing of twenty-five hundred years their topics remain relevant to the modern world. ... Pursuing the perfect definition, however fruitless, still makes one think and organize their thoughts. ... Plato used mathematics to explain that we base geometry around perfect angles, circle, and triangles, even though they do not exist. ... Plato argued that nothing is perfect or correct if you can conceive something better, even if it does not exist, and made very precise distinctions between "knowledge" and "belief." ...

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It is argued that from modern times onwards the development of scientific knowledge on the one hand, and technology on the other is inextricably bound up each with the other. ... Both reflect the autonomy of the modern subject, who distances himself from both 'higher' imposed metaphysical values and from those of nature. ... Part I also analyses and interprets the philosophical and theological developments leading to these modern, interrelated conceptions of freedom and epistemology. ... Although Ockham's doctrine is a prelude to the typically modern adage of the 'verum ...

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