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Wittgenstein's Picture

From Zettel  (repunctuated for clarity): 249. « Nichts leichter, als sich einen 4-dimensionalen Würfel vorstellen! Er schaut so aus… » "Nothing easier than to imagine a 4-dimensional cube! It looks like…

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See also … Papal mace points to education's true purpose, Scottish bishop says as well as Welcome to Scotland.

The Pony Argument

The title was suggested by this morning's post "Follow This." From a previous incarnation of my home website, m759.com — The second of the site's three pages mentions authors Alfred…

Followup for Josefine

The title refers to the previous post, "Follow This." Dialogue from "Night at the Museum 3"— "He's not in charge, we're just following him." "That's what being in…

Follow This

The "Phony Pony" images below by Josefine Lyche may or may not have been created in response to the link on "magic" in the previous post to Katy Perry's "Dark Horse"…

Pyramid Dance

Oslo artist Josefine Lyche has a new Instagram post, this time on pyramids (the monumental kind). My response — Wikipedia's definition of a tetrahedron as a "triangle-based pyramid" ……

Models

Continued from November 30, 2014 "Number right → Everything right." — Burkard Polster.  See also the six  posts of November 30, St. Andrew's Day. Related material — Peter J. Cameron today discussing…

Ender's Game

Reese Witherspoon in "Wild" (Click to enlarge.) Witherspoon and Wiggins Streets, Princeton, NJ: "When you come to a fork in the road…" 

Borderline Metaphysics

See also Ennead Boo.

Colorful Tale

Continued. "Perhaps the philosophically most relevant feature of modern science is the emergence of abstract symbolic structures as the hard core of objectivity behind— as Eddington puts it— the colorful…