What is a Polymath?

[Bittu]

A video on this subject is my suggestion!

[Reciprocality]

To cherish also the catagorical, not merely the specific.

To contribute to the width of knowledge and theory, not only the depth.

Alternatively: to contribute to breaking points BETWEEN fields, lets say you lived your whole life doing nothing amazing in the field of psychology nor in the field of neuroscience, but you contributed to the "hard problem" in between so to revolutionize the scientific depth of the nature of 'consciousness' and merging two fields together. That would be the quintesential polymathic act.

But normaly it is considered when one contributed to several fields, i would consider Chomsky for example a modern era polymath with his contribution to Linguisitcs and Political theory, and to lesser extents Psychological theory, philosophy and metascience.

[tricksntraps]

Someone like Leonardo da Vinci

Edited November 22, 2020 by tricksntraps