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The Problem Problem

Continued from Jan. 22, 2013: Given these choices for a solution , what is a suitable problem ? The problem sketched on Jan. 22 was a joke. A more serious triangle-circle-square problem:…

Abstract Possibility

Today's NY Times  "Stone Links" to philosophy include a link to a review of a collection of Hilary Putnam's papers. Related material, from Putnam's "What is Mathematical Truth?"…

Clash of the Caped Crusaders

The New Yorker , quoted here yesterday, on a meeting in 1638 of Galileo and Milton— "… it’s like those comic-book specials in which Superman meets Batman…." Related news…

Binder

A sequel to last midnight's post See also Midnight Politics and On the Cusp.

Midnight in the Garden

(Continued)      For a related essay, click on the image below.     

Serpents' Eyes Only

    "The serpent's eyes shine as he wraps around the vine" — Don Henley

Encounter

"Sometime in 1638, John Milton visited Galileo Galilei in Florence. The great astronomer was old and blind and under house arrest, confined by order of the Inquisition, which…

PEP Talk

Review: A page linked to here on Jan. 25— psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut on the "nuclear self"— The Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP) website has a  paper on Kohut's concept—…

Patrick's Days

Continued from previous post — For what it's worth… A birth and a death, each on the Feast of St. Patrick "Donald Frederick Hornig was born on March 17,…

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