... 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...
... A CONVERSATION WITH PARMENIDES Parmenides [interpolations mine - EL] Ei d'ag' egOn ereO, komisai de su muthon akousas, haiper hodoi mounai dizEsios eisi...
Good luck, Ed! Judy Wubnig ... This mail sent through www.mywaterloo.ca...
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Although I 'm not writing anymore, because of lack of time, I'm still reading... Ed Little: I wish you good luck , Carmen ... [Non-text portions of this...
Thank you, Judy, Carmen and Paul for your best wishes. My disability goes under the name of spondylitic myelinopathy. It's clarified in Liddell & Scott. - Ed...
Edward Little, thank you for your prodigious contributions. I hope you recover from surgery! The Open Countryside- We enjoy being in the open countryside so...
Dear Ed Litttle, From all of us at Parmenides Publishing - we appreciate your thoughts and insights very much and wish you all the best for a speedy recovery. ...
Sara Hermann
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... 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...
... 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....
... TRAGEDY I brought up Aristotle in the last post, the discussion of Aeschylus' Prometheus, because his Poetics has always been the point of departure for...
... TWO KINDS OF ABSTRACTION There was criticism of Homer's treatment of the Olympian gods by Xenophanes of Colophon: panta theois anethEkan HomEros th'...
[Third try] ... STORIES Men and women have always loved stories. Today they love novels and short stories and drama (cinema). Ancient peoples loved their old...
... Dear Ed, I always enjoy your postings, since I love both Parmenides who had the revelation of the Ways of Truth and Seeming from the goddess and Plato's ...
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... Thank you, Judy. We share a common interest here in Parmenides and the Parmenides. Guthrie's Greeks and Their Gods for many years been a favorite of mine...
... QUO VADIS? Modern life, industrial and urban, becomes more and more unsatisfying year by year. The age of science and technology has yielded us many...
... "ONCE UPON A TIME . . . " I am trying to imagine how we differ mentally from prehistoric peoples. What passed for intelligence in those old days? They...
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