Mental
The Mathematics of not Knowing
Al-Bīrūnī noticed something peculiar about the human mind: we mistake familiarity for truth. The ideas we encounter repeatedly feel more correct, not because they are, but because they've worn comfortable grooves in our thinking.
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The thinker
Medieval Scholar of Cultures
Al-Bīrūnī (973-1048) was a Persian polymath who revolutionized the study of other cultures by refusing to impose his own categories on foreign ideas, instead learning Sanskrit to understand Indian thought on its own terms.
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