作者:
吉姆.霍爾特 副标题: Why Does the World Exist: An Existential Detective Story 原作名: Why Does the World Exist: An Existential Detective Story 译者:
陳信宏 出版年: 2016-7-28 装帧: 平装 ISBN: 9789862137161
《纽约客》的长期撰稿人——他撰写的主题包括弦论、时间、无限、数字、真理、瞎扯蛋以及其他议题——并着有《笑话的历史与哲学》(Stop Me If You’ve Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes)。他也经常为《纽约时报》供稿。现居于纽约市格林威治村。
What is nothing? Macbeth answered this question with admirable concinnity: “Nothing is, but what is not.” My dictionary puts it somewhat more paradoxically—“nothing (n.): a thing that does not exist.” Although Parmenides, the ancient Eleatic sage, declared that it was impossible to speak of what is not—thereby violating his own precept—the plain man knows better. Nothing is popularly held to be better than a dry martini, but worse than sand in the bedsheets. A poor man has it, a rich man needs it, and if you eat it for a long time, it’ll kill you. On occasion, nothing could be further from the truth, but it is not clear how much further. It can be both black and white all over at the same time. Nothing is impossible for God, yet it is a cinch for the rankest incompetent. No matter what pai... (查看原文)
我只是翻到十分之一的地方就没有再看下去了,所以是没有评价的立场的。于是只说读到这里的收获和没有继续读下去的原因。 印象最深刻的是贯穿全书的终极问题:Why's there something rather than nothing? 和作者的成书逻辑:“如果我们可以找到一种正确的顺序把聪明人的想法都...
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1 有用 BZ路人甲 2020-02-17 11:33:45
综合了神学、哲学、逻辑学、数学、物理\生物等自然科学各个领域古今各路学者对这个世界终极命题的探索和讨论,可能每个人最后都会得到答案,也可能什么都没有,结局无非有与无。但这个过程是我们用尽所知所识去对未知的探索求证,可能没有结果,但不会没有意义