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Sermon

From The Mathematics of Language: 10th and 11th  Biennial Conference…. Berlin,  Springer, 2010 — “Creation Myths of Generative Grammar and the Mathematics of Syntactic Structures” by Geoffrey K. Pullum,…

Syntactic/Symplectic

Syntactic  Structure — See the Lightfoot of today’s previous post: Symplectic  Structure — See the plaited, or woven, structure of  August 6: . See also Deep  Structure  (Dec. 9, 2012).

Operation Lightfoot*

“In 1977, Golan directed Operation Thunderbolt….” — Hollywood Reporter  obituary * See a search for Lightfoot  in this journal.

Succès de Scandale

Ten Years

A Late Quartet 01:13:08.25,01:13:12.35 (STRING QUARTET PLAYING SLOW, LUSH MELODY) 01:13:22.59,01:13:26.23 They’re fucking sixteenths, Steve, stop milking them. 01:13:26.36,01:13:29.78 Folks, disagree, but do it nicely, and please… 01:13:30.47,01:13:33.38…

Forty Years

The Omega Mystery

See a post,  The Omega Matrix, from the date of her death. Related material: "When Death tells a story, you really have to listen." — Cover of The…

Abuse of Language

From Wikipedia — Abuse of language — “… in mathematics, a use of terminology in a way that is not formally correct but that simplifies exposition or suggests the correct intuition.” The phrase “symplectic…

Symplectic Structure*

From Gotay and Isenberg, "The Symplectization of Science," Gazette des Mathématiciens  54, 59-79 (1992): "… what is the origin of the unusual name 'symplectic'? …. Its mathematical usage…

Verhexung

"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment [Verhexung ] of our intelligence by means of our language." — Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations , Section 109 "The philosophy of logic speaks of sentences and words…