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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Shema, Faust

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:00 pm

"The quotes create the illusion
that the dead are still speaking
to the reader. Faust writes about
the efforts of spiritualists to believe
in an afterlife for their slain kin, but
she’s the one summoning spirits."

April Yee, Harvard Crimson
     staff writer, February 7, 2008

"0! = 1" 

Quine's Shema

See also yesterday's Into the Woods 
and posts now tagged Willow and Mandorla.

Saturday, July 16, 2016

Binary Shema: The “O” and the “I”

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 4:35 am

The "I" of "I Am that I Am" has been described as a creation of
an "ur-unity" (see the Anderson passage below) and this ur-unity,
denoted by "O," has been described elsewhere as "a primary reality"
(see the Sullivan passage below). These descriptions are of course 
much less clear than those usually given for the similar purely
mathematical *  notations "0" and "1."

See also Quine's Shema  in "Is Nothing Sacred?" —

0! = 1.

Quoted here on July 30, 2015

Kabbalah and Finnegans Wake

Linked to here on June 29, 2016

Bion and the 'O'

*  Note for mathematicians: Here characteristic 0 is assumed .
    Quine's Shema does not apply to Galois.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Tuesday June 19, 2007

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:00 pm
Quine's Shema:

0! = 1.

Hickory Dickory Dock…

Scene from A Good Year

A Good Year

Friday, May 12, 2006

Friday May 12, 2006

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:00 pm
The Carlin Code

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Happy birthday, George:

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Sources:

Tom Hanks’s birthday, 2005

Salute to Anthony Hopkins,
May 3, May 4, May 5

Today’s Wizard of Id

Judeo-Christian Heritage:
The Wiener Kreis

André Weil As I Knew Him,
by Goro Shimura (pdf)

Simone Weil
on George Herbert

Related material:

The Prime Cut Gospel

Harvard Symbology

God Is Red

Quine’s Shema

The Big Red One

Tuesday, December 7, 2004

Tuesday December 7, 2004

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:00 pm

White Christmas

Starring W. V. Quine as
the Ghost of Christmas Past

“Birthday, death-day —
   what day is not both?”
   — John Updike

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live….

We interpret what we see, select the most workable of multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the ‘ideas’ with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.

Or at least we do for a while. I am talking here about a time when I began to doubt the premises of all the stories I had ever told myself, a common condition but one I found troubling.”

Joan Didion, The White Album

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0! = 1

Quine’s Shema

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