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