PSYC 305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Active Intellect, Mnemonic, Human Action
15 Nov 2016
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Pythagorean myth has huge influence on the way people in the west see the world. Pythagorean cosmology universe initially a unity that biomes differentiated into pairs of opposites opposites then harmonized to make the various forms of life contemporary psych: process of ontogeny understood in a similar way. Pythagorean mathematics in positive integers, odd and even number alternate > union of opposites. Pythagoras, plato, and the problem of the irrational irrational as an unavoidable aspect of reality ex. 2 right-angle triangle problem of the irrational golden section: an irrational number with value 0. 618 since the 19th c, many claims about how nature possess dimensional properties of the golden section. Fibonacci number gets closer and closer to the golden number any event is only an imperfect illustration of some ideal event. The forms distinction between the way things appear vs reality.
