Were it not for this inalterable armony, pre-established by God, between subject and object, all our thinking would be necessarily without fruit." - Meaning and context.">
As translated by Julio Antonio Gonzalo (2008) in The Intelligible Universe: An Overview of the Last Thirteen Billion Years . World Scientific. p. 297
• Original: Was aber subjektiv richtig gedacht ist, ist auch objektiv wahr, Ohne diese von Gott zwischen der subjektiven und objektiven Welt prästabilierte ewige Harmonie wäre all unser Denken unfruchtbar
• Naturwissenschaftliche vorträge (1871). p. 31
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Were it not for this inalterable armony, pre-established by God, between subject and object, all our thinking would be necessarily without fruit.

— Julius Robert von Mayer

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Were it not for this inalterable armony, pre-established by God, between subject and object, all our thinking would be necessarily without fruit." in the context of "As translated by Julio Antonio Gonzalo (2008) in The Intelligible Universe: An Overview of the Last Thirteen Billion Years . World Scientific. p. 297
• Original: Was aber subjektiv richtig gedacht ist, ist auch objektiv wahr, Ohne diese von Gott zwischen der subjektiven und objektiven Welt prästabilierte ewige Harmonie wäre all unser Denken unfruchtbar
• Naturwissenschaftliche vorträge (1871). p. 31" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Julius Robert von Mayer

About Julius Robert von Mayer

Julius Robert von Mayer (November 25, 1814 – March 20, 1878) was a German physician and physicist and one of the founders of thermodynamics.