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I would like to be a well rounded person and have knowledge of many different things. What are some good books that cover the fundamentals of specific a topic or skill?

>> No.14767455
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14767455

>>14767437
The Trivium by Miriam Joseph and Basic Mathematics by Serge Lang

>> No.14767504

>>14767455
Thanks

>> No.14767632

>>14767437
>knowledge of many different things
Study science. No /lit/ person will say this but if you seek knowledge then read a bio 101, chem 101 or phys 101 book. /lit/ is for people who desire understanding after the fact.

>> No.14767656
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14767656

>>14767437
Be an Entp.

Life on easy mode.

>> No.14767668

>>14767656
I don't believe in these things but I'm INTJ. Got it 3/3 times.

>>14767632
I already do. Still, calculating pH hasn't been very useful irl. Would like to pick up skills and general knowledge.

>> No.14767689

>>14767668
>I don't believe in these things but I'm INTJ. Got it 3/3 times.
I don't believe in them either but they present definite immutable psychological differences/predispositions which can be organised.

Hence why I am Nick Fuentes.

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>>14767437
>implying any knowledge is possible
I'm howling

>> No.14767745

>>14767725
I don't know what that means

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>>14767745
It means that knowledge is impossible.
Also I fixed the colors on the pic because it bugged me

>> No.14767770

just read textbooks on the subject you want to know about

or read an encyclopedia

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>>14767725
>>14767767
>someone actually shoped hegels on this pic as I requested the other day

Dangerously based

>> No.14768171

>>14767767
You should have fixed it the other way

>dialectic

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>>14767437

>> No.14768205

>>14768171
>You should have fixed it the other way
??

>> No.14768294

Try to find what good universities have their students read for every 101 course, in all the subjects that interest you (economics, chemistry, political science, art history, whatever you want).

>> No.14768298

>>14768205
To make it the colour of Hegel's phenomenology.

>> No.14768695

>>14767668
im curious how calculating pH has been useful irl. Are you a farmer?

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>>14768294
PLEASE GIVE ME A LINK I'M BEGGING YOU I CAN NEVER FIND WHAT UNIVERSITIES TEACH WHEN I LOOK AT COURSES PLEASE I BEG YOU PLEASE FIND IT FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>> No.14768740

>>14768717
I am Belgian, so I don't know how it works in your country, but I basically google the list of classes available, then I can click on individual courses and there is a page describing the course and giving a list of "recommended readings".

>> No.14769501

>>14767767
You have knowledge and yet you renounce it

>> No.14769615

>>14768717
https://opensyllabus.org/results-list/titles?size=50

>> No.14770125

>>14767437
Here's what I've got. For history:
>Gombrich, A Little History of the World
English history:
>Marshall, Our Island Story
Very (very!) basic geometry:
>Diggins, String, Staightedge and Shadow: The Story of Geometry
Logic:
>Kreeft, Socratic Logic

>> No.14770180

>>14770125
Then do Coxeter and then EGMO by Evan Chen.