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Thursday, February 17, 2022

Four Dots, Six Lines

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:46 am

"There is  such a thing  as  a tesseract." 

— Mrs. Whatsit in  A Wrinkle in Time  (1962)

"Simplify, simplify." — Henry David Thoreau in Walden  (1854)

Von Franz representation of the I Ching's Hexagram 2, The Receptive
 

A Jungian on this six-line figure:

“They are the same six lines that exist in the I Ching…. Now observe the square more closely: four of the lines are of equal length, the other two are longer…. For this reason symmetry cannot be statically produced and a dance results.”
 
— Marie-Louise von Franz,
   Number and Time  (1970)

Monday, June 26, 2017

Four Dots

Analogies — “A : B  ::  C : D”  may be read  “A is to B  as  C is to D.”

Gian-Carlo Rota on Heidegger…

“… The universal as  is given various names in Heidegger’s writings….

The discovery of the universal as  is Heidegger’s contribution to philosophy….

The universal ‘as‘ is the surgence of sense in Man, the shepherd of Being.

The disclosure of the primordial as  is the end of a search that began with Plato….
This search comes to its conclusion with Heidegger.”

— “Three Senses of ‘A is B’ in Heideggger,” Ch. 17 in Indiscrete Thoughts
See also Four Dots in this journal.

Some context:  McLuhan + Analogy.

Monday, May 27, 2019

But Seriously . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:32 pm

McLuhan on Analogy.

I prefer the simple "four dots" figure
of the double colon:

For those who prefer stranger analogies . . .

Actors from "The Eiger Sanction" —

Doctor Strange on Mount Everest —

Dr. Strange at beyondtheopposites.com on 2016/12/02

See as well this  journal on the above Strange date, 2016/12/02,
in posts tagged Lumber Room.

Sunday, January 20, 2019

Scope Resolution

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:00 am

Wikipedia on a programming term

The scope resolution operator helps to identify
and specify the context to which an identifier refers,
particularly by specifying a namespace. The specific
uses vary across different programming languages
with the notions of scoping.  In many languages
the scope resolution operator is written

 "::".

In a completely different context, these four dots might represent
a geometric object  — the four-point plane .

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

The Movement of Analogy

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:20 pm

The title is a phrase by Octavio Paz from today's post
"Status Symbols."

Other phrases from a link target in Sunday's post 
The Strength at the Centre

                                a single world
In which he is and as and is are one.

See also Four Dots in this journal.

Monday, June 26, 2017

Upgrading to Six

This post was suggested by the previous post — Four Dots —
and by the phrase "smallest perfect" in this journal.

Related material (click to enlarge) —

Detail —

From the work of Eddington cited in 1974 by von Franz —

See also Dirac and Geometry and Kummer in this journal.

Updates from the morning of June 27 —

Ron Shaw on Eddington's triads "associated in conjugate pairs" —

For more about hyperbolic  and isotropic  lines in PG(3,2),
see posts tagged Diamond Theorem Correlation.

For Shaw, in memoriam — See Contrapuntal Interweaving and The Fugue.

Saturday, August 27, 2016

Folk Notation

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:01 pm

See the Chautauqua Season post of June 25
and a search for Notation  in this journal.

See as well the previous post and Bullshit Studies .

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