Versus the Hobgoblins of Emerson Hall
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Priest Logic
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Priest Logic for Frodo
Elijah Wood in "The Last Witch Hunter" —
See Graham Priest in this journal.
See also Coxeter + Discursive.
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Saturday, December 18, 2010
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
A Geometric Merkabah*
For Hanukkah (which starts this evening)—
Part I — The Stella Octangula (see also Monday's ART WARS post)—
Part II — A different view of the Stella —
Click images for some mathematical background.
For some philosophical background on illusion and reality, see Graham Priest in the Sunday, Nov. 28, New York Times column "The Stone" and in a work of fiction he published in the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic (Vol. 38, No. 4) in 1997.
* See Google Images for pictures that are less academically respectable.
For some related religious lore, see Merkabah at Wikipedia.
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Sunday, November 28, 2010
This Just In
Readings that may or may not* be relevant —
Graham Priest, "The Stone" and The Jewel in the Lotus.
* See Priest in Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, Fall 1997 and see Block That Metaphor.
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