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Homework 2 Phil. 125, Prof. Dowden |
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Answer all questions in order. Place each answer on
a separate page, and devote no more than one page, typed double space,
to each answer. 1. Describe chaos theory and discuss its implications. [Hint: butterfly effect, indeterminism, Lorenz's weather forecasting, Nietzsche, Poincaré's Recurrence Theorem.] 2. How has our civilization's understanding of time changed since ancient times? 3. Why is there something rather than nothing? What does Elliott Sober say? Do you agree? |