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Thomas Pangle

Thomas Pangle

American political scientist

Jun 29, 2026

52:38
Facts
52:38
... to predict and control the data, the facts, the given.
52:42
It, what's behind the given, you know, what it is that we're interacting with, uh, when we, you know, develop our quantum mechanics.
52:49
You know, what's really generating the data we get.
52:52
We don't have to get into that because we're dealing with just, you know, the models that make, predict and control the facts.
52:59
The whole spirit of a, uh, of a science that is concerned with being, in the ancient view or the Socratic view or the Platonic view, is one which is, I think, much more open to the, to the mystery, to the, to the unresolved, uh, uh, enigma of what is, you know, in the universe.
53:19
And therefore is more open to seriously and continuously engaging with revelation, with mysticism, with claims that are not fully ra-

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What's wrong with that interpretation?

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