A weblog post from Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012—
"Today is the 120th anniversary of Cardinal Henry Edward Manning's death."
— A Reluctant Sinner (Thanks to Andrew Cusack for the link.)
If Manning is a saint, then Saturday was his feast day.
Some background— Manning in this journal.
See also Saturday's Derrida at Villanova. The link there to
previous posts on that topic leads to a post on Derrida's promotion
of his neologism différance as a version of Plato's khôra.
I prefer Manning's discussion of a closely related concept,
the scholastic philosophers' materia prima .
See Hugh R. King's 1956 paper sneering at the scholastics'
concept, and Heisenberg's much better-informed remarks
on the related concept of potentia —
For a related fictional account of a religious quest for "possibilities"
and "excluded middles" between "zeroes and ones," see
Ingraffia on The Crying of Lot 49 .
