> [Go to annotation](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/ZXLT8S9R?page=9&annotation=9EG3ZVFF) “Notice that I keep harping on this idea of relationships. Plato had a notion that the idea of a thing was more real than the thing itself, that there existed one true form of a thing: All physical chairs are but imperfect manifestations of the idea of Chair. Interdisciplinarians, I insist, say, Hogwash. To understand the purpose, the essence, the truth, of a chair you have to sit in it, or perhaps design and build one. A chair only means something in relationship to someone who uses it. Alone its purpose may not be at all obvious; or alternatively, it might well have many different potential purposes or meanings. After talking about this in class another student wrote me, "My cousins and I routinely turned the rocking chair over to create our fort house with a blanket on top. It was not a chair to us, but it was very real, and its purpose to us was obvious, a perfect hiding place for eating cookies and telling stories."” ([Dreyfuss, 2011, p. 9](zotero://select/library/items/9TSM2DQ3)) I tend to agree with Plato that ideas are stronger than reality in many cases. Everything lies in the meaning that we give to objects. "It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important." The Little Prince. I feel encouraged to look beyond the surface and seek the underlying principles that connect the fields. Mathematical models describe reality way more accurately than our sensory experience. They go beyond observable layers down to the fundamental truths. [[Mathematics]] may be the only connection to an objective truth. Literature also explores [[The Archetypes]] which are universal forms, [[Abstract Art]] goes further and abstracts the shapes to universal principles of geometry and form, [[Music Composition]] is utilizing perfect proportions stating that mathematical harmony underlies beauty, and so on. > [Go to annotation](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/ZXLT8S9R?page=6&annotation=IQS4MIM8) “Truth, as my student was using the term, is a singular or essential thing. That is, she is operating from the assumption, as many in our positivistic, scientific age are, that there is a singular, monolithic, external, and objective reality, and that if we can strip away the taint of our own perspective and experience as in scientific experimentation, we might know the essence of it.” ([Dreyfuss, 2011, p. 6](zotero://select/library/items/9TSM2DQ3)) It must be like that! No? Imagine all these for nothing. Sadly this might be just another way of recognizing human's need to be governed. It must be something behind, something smarter, better, constant, essentially something that we can't be. Something with a reason we can't comprehend, because it is pure.