Talbot tells us that the holographic theory provides a profound new way of looking at the world: Our brains mathematically construct objective reality by...
... WATER We brought it up in the last post (2/27). What is so special about water? It is a simple combination of two common elements, an atom of oxygen and...
... A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR RE-INVIGORATING THE ANCIENT CLASSICS In nineteen twenty the American Classical League undertook what was called "The Classical...
... I have asked this question before, and I will asked it again. I have been asking it for most of my life. By the age of twenty it dawned on me that each of...
... More about Method in the Social Sciences A. The Pythagoreans, Aristotle tells us (Metaph. A, 986a23), arranged things in pairs, the ten sustoichia, limited...
Gilson said, in his "unity of philosophical experience", the laboratory is the history of philosophy. chungchi hsu ... More about Method in the Social Sciences...
... FAIRIES Do you believe in fairies? I do. Oh, not the way we did as small children. Differently. Like this: I have been reading Puck of Pook's Hill. You...
Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a book on fairies which included photograohes taken when films were still sensitive out into the ultraviolet. Some sensitive people...
From Carlos Suares book Qabala Trilogy..Rabbi Aqivah considered this the most important text in the Bible and claimed he could reconstruct all knowledge from a...
... We invoked the fairies in the last post. It was pointed out that history and religion and science, all grew out of myth in the infancy of mankind. We might...
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... ISOCRATES The last two posts have asked us to pause, and to reconsider IV century B.C. Athens, and the positions of some of its great men. Surpassing the...
... ISOCRATES AND DEMOSTHENES - THE HELLENISTIC WORLD (Reprise) "In the entrance-hall stood the larger figures of the Greco-Buddhist sculptures done, savants ...
... OBITER DICTUM - METAPOLITICS The "contest" between Demosthenes and Isocrates was worthy of our close attention only because it pointed up an acute...
... The enlargement of our views of the metaphysics of Plato and Aristotle to include an overview of Isocrates and the ensuing diaspora of Greeks to the East...
... RECAP "The affair does not need to be so complicated. A simple explanation will do" (last post). I am not joking. I am not saying that the Parmenides and...
... A GORDIAN KNOT What was Parmenides talking about? Clues from third parties are rare, but here are two: Isocrates' Antidosis has a long defense and praise...
Athens was a "democratic" empire whose power was based on defeat of what was seen as an oriental despotism. Her relation to her allies is parallel to today...
... A CONVERSATION WITH PARMENIDES Parmenides [interpolations mine - EL] Ei d'ag' egOn ereO, komisai de su muthon akousas, haiper hodoi mounai dizEsios eisi...
Consider a form which is empty of creation substance. This form has the potential of containing, but can not be talked about, but just noticed. Consider a...
The city-states of ancient Greece, although politically separate entities, shared a common culture/language. America too is composed of different states that...
... A PARTING SHOT (I told you so) Lewis Thomas, M.D., came into sudden prominence about thirty years ago, with the publication of a little book, Lives of a...
Your files are attached and ready to send with this message. ... While waiting around for the "cutter," I have been reading and thinking (which by now you must...
Your files are attached and ready to send with this message. ... Rebecca Goldstein's book on Goedel, "Incompleteness," New York, Viking, 2005, is an ...
Your files are attached and ready to send with this message. ... Kurt Goedel's notorious Incompleteness Theorem, which has been the topic of the last two...
Your files are attached and ready to send with this message. ... In my explanation in the last post (#3) of Goedel numbers for strings of elements I stopped...
Your files are attached and ready to send with this message. ... The discussion of Goedel's Theorem, and of mathematical and symbolic logic, in the last four...
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