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General Relativity generated various early philosophical interpretations. His adherents have highlighted the "relativization of inertia" and the concept of simultaneity, Kantians and Neo-Kantians have underlined the approach of certain synthetic "intellectual forms" (especially the principle of general covariance, and logical empirics have emphasized the philosophical methodological significance of the theory. Reichenbach approached the GR through the "relativity of geometry" thesis, trying to build a "constructive axiomatization" of relativity based on "elementary matters of fact" (Elementartatbestande) for the observable behavior of light rays, rods and clocks. The mathematician Hermann Weyl attempted a reconstruction of Einstein's theory based on the epistemology of a "pure infinitesimal geometry", an extended geometry with additional terms that formally identified with the potential of the electromagnetic field.

The Republic was written approximately between 380 and 370 BCE. The title Republica is derived from Latin, attributed to Cicero, who called the book De re publica (On Public Affairs), or even as De republica, thus creating confusion as to its true meaning. The Republic is considered an integral part of the utopian literary genre. The second title, Peri dikaiou (περὶ δικαίου, On justice), may have been included later. The central theme of the book is justice, argued with the help of several Platonic theories, including the allegorical myth of the cave, the doctrine of ideas, dialectics, the theory of the soul, and the project of an ideal city. The Republic is considered by many academics to be the greatest philosophical text ever written, being the most studied book in top universities. Source: Πολιτεία (375 BCE), by Plato, English translation by Benjamin Jowett (1901), MultiMedia Publishing (2022), ISBN 978-606-033-654-9

Book Review: Taleb, Nassim Nicholas (2007), The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Random House, ISBN 978-1400063512 The book tackles subjects related to knowledge and ways of life, with elements of fiction and anecdotes from the author's personal life, starting from literary aspects to scientific and mathematical ones. The focus is on "our blindness to randomness, especially large deviations." The black swan theory was developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb to explain the disproportionate role of hard-to-predict rare events, the inconsistency of scientific methods in calculating the probability of rare events due to the nature of small probabilities, and people's biases towards uncertainty and the massive role of a rare event. Taleb suggests that businessmen use the "barbell strategy" for investing that he himself used, which consists of avoiding medium-risk investments and placing 85-90% of the money in the safest instruments available and the remaining 10- 15% in highly speculative business.