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A Raven's Remark— Related material: Fish Story, Object Lesson, The Universe of Discourse, Archimedes's Approximation of Pi, and…
From the 1984 New Orleans film Tightrope— Related material: Walking the Tightrope and Transgressing.
Blake on the Bus Note the contemptible adolescent misinformation about Jim Morrison, The Doors, and Blake. The Doors may have been named after neither Blake's original version of the phrase…
Yesterday's 11 AM post Mad Day concluded with a link to a 2001 American Mathematical Society article by Pierre Cartier that sums up the religion and politics of many mathematicians……
"The theme for the National Catholic Schools Week 2013 is 'Catholic Schools Raise the Standards.' The annual observance starts the last Sunday in January and runs all week, which in 2013…
A perceptive review of Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life— "Page 185: 'Whatever else we are, we are also mad.' " Related material— last night's Outside the…
In memory of the late Ed Koch, a poem and a link: Poem — "The Shoebox," by Sheila Gogol Link — Sheila in this journal
For Tony Kushner fans: For logic fans: John Searle on Derrida: In the box-diamond notation, the axiom Searle quotes is . "The euclidean property guarantees the truth of…
The inscription link in the previous post suggests a review of the rather paradoxical concept of "necessary possibility." See a deconstructionist view , a scholarly view, and a graphic…
… Before Derrida's writings on Plato and on inscription A remark by the late William Harris: "Scholarship has many dark ages, and they do not all fall in the…