Tag: Day 14

Derrida at Villanova

"As Derrida said at Villanova, "We wait for something we would not like to wait for. That is another name for death." — Brian D. Ingraffia, "Is the…

Defining Form (continued)

Detail of Sylvie Donmoyer picture discussed here on January 10— The "13" tile may refer to the 13 symmetry axes in the 3x3x3 Galois cube, or the corresponding…

Damnation Morning*

(Continued) The following is adapted from a 2011 post— * The title, that of a Fritz Leiber story, is suggested by    the above picture of the symmetry…

Wednesday January 14, 2004

Language Game Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations: 373. Grammar tells what kind of object anything is. (Theology as grammar.) Related material: See this date last year, and Zen and…

Wednesday January 14, 2004

Games On this date — Alfred Tarski was born in 1902 in Warsaw, and Kurt Friedrich Gödel died in 1978 in Princeton. From last year’s entry on this…

Tuesday January 14, 2003

Remarks on Day 14 of the Year of Our Lord 2003 On this date — Alfred Tarski was born in 1902 in Warsaw, and Kurt Friedrich Gödel died…

Tuesday January 14, 2003

Day 14 — The More I Learn My heart’s been cared for My heart’s been used It only makes me more confused Just when I’m sure I’ve gotten…

Tuesday January 14, 2003

Long Winter Evening Humphrey Bogart took The Big Sleep on this date in 1957.  As his character said in that film, “I don’t mind if you don’t like…