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A sequel to the 1974 film Thunderbolt and Lightfoot : Contingent and Fluky Some variations on a thunderbolt theme: These variations also exemplify the larger Verbum theme: Escher’s Verbum Solomon’s Cube…
Yesterday afternoon's post linked to efforts by the late Robert de Marrais to defend a mathematical approach to structuralism and kaleidoscopic patterns. Two examples of non-mathematical discourse on such…
Quoted in the March 13 post Blackboard Jungle: "Every morning you take your machete into the jungle and explore and make observations, and every day you fall more…
For a modern Adam and Eve— W. Tecumseh Fitch and Gesche Westphal Fitch, editors of a new four-volume collection titled Language Evolution (Feb. 2, 2012, $1,360)— Related material— "At…
(Continued) "… we have taken the first steps in decoding the uniquely human fascination with visual patterns…." — W. Tecumseh Fitch et al. , July 2012 Fitch cites the following…
The concept of "deep structure," once a popular meme, has long been abandoned by Chomskians. It still applies, however, to the 1976 mathematics, diamond theory , underlying the formal patterns…
… Chomsky vs. Santa From a New Yorker weblog yesterday— "Happy Birthday, Noam Chomsky." by Gary Marcus— "… two titans facing off, with Chomsky, as ever, defining the…
( Continued from yesterday's post FLT ) Context Part I — "In 1957, George Miller initiated a research programme at Harvard University to investigate rule-learning, in situations where participants…
The "FLT" of the above title is not Fermat's Last Theorem, but Formal Language Theory (see image below). In memory of George A. Miller, Harvard cognitive psychologist, who…
A followup to Intelligence Test (April 2, 2012). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (2012) 367, 2007–2022 (theme issue of July 19, 2012) — Production and Perception Rules…