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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...
What Geodel showed was shown long ago in Greek by Aristotle in his Posterior Analytics. No demonstration is complete in itself. ( Essentially you cannot have...
I wish to make several comments concerning Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems. Mostly I do this from a philosophical point of view, I'm not mathematician by...
Some references I recommend about this subject: 1. Kurt Gödel. "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems" <===...
Basically the Zermelo-Russell Paradox is a paradox in naďve set theory: Let's say that there is a set of all sets that don't belong to themselves. Is such a...
Hi Most of contemporary logic is first-order and second-order logic, and a predicative logic has been developed. In fact, Frege and Russell both developed...
... ANCIENT AND MODERN METAPHYSICS Throughout our discussions on this list we have maintained that Parmenides was struck by the notion of Being, just being...
... BEING AND NOT-BEING IN THE REPUBLIC We have from time to time identified two prominent places in which Plato speaks of not-being, in the Sophist and in the...
... PROMEHEUS The philosophical accomplishments of mankind that began with the presocratics, were preceded by the religious and mythical side of his culture....
... PROMETHEUS, cont. Let us sort out some of the key lines that reveal to us what Aeschylus is trying to tell us here in Prometheus DesmotEs. It opens with...
... PROMETHEUS, cont. - GREEK TRAGEDY Let me continue this examination of Aeschyus' Prometheus for what it may have to tell us about the world of Parmenides....
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