“But Western culture needed more time in the detox center than was actually spent there, and the temptation to go back to realist assumptions has been constant and unrelenting. This has been particularly the case with mathematics and its cousins — theoretical physics and symbolic logic in particular. Many modern fads and fashions — the fruitless attempts to create artificial intelligence, say — continue to exert a spell entirely on the strength of an underlying and invisible Platonism” (The Paideia of God, p. 81).
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