See also
This post was suggested by Log24 remarks on May 4, 2014,
the date of Garrett Lisi's Twitter post announcing the opening
of his Pacific Science Institute (see previous post).
(Continued … See the title in this journal, as well as Cube Bricks.)
Cube Bricks 1984 —
Related material —
Dirac and Geometry in this journal,
Kummer's Quartic Surface in this journal,
Nanavira Thera in this journal, and
The Razor's Edge and Nanavira Thera.
See as well Bill Murray's 1984 film "The Razor's Edge" …
Movie poster from 1984 —
"A thin line separates
love from hate,
success from failure,
life from death."
Three other dualities, from Nanavira Thera in 1959 —
"I find that there are, in every situation,
three independent dualities…."
(Click to enlarge.)
He reportedly died on Jan. 31 at a hospital in Jerusalem.
See also “Deutsche Ordnung ,” the phrase (and film) “Triple Cross,”
and “Circle of Positivity” (Christmas Day, 2020).
“A quick note on terminology. Members of the Circle
were logical empiricists, sometimes called logical positivists.
Positivism is the view that our knowledge derives from
the natural world and includes the idea that we can have
positive knowledge of it. The Circle combined this position
with the use of modern logic; the aim was to build a new
philosophy.”
— Edmonds, David. The Murder of Professor Schlick (p. vii).
Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.
For aficionados of associative logic —
See Triple Cross in this journal and the Fano-plane circle
in the illustration below.
The title is from a phrase spoken, notably, by Yul Brynner
to Christopher Plummer in the 1966 film “Triple Cross.”
Related structures —
Greg Egan’s animated image of the Klein quartic —
For a smaller tetrahedral arrangement, within the Steiner quadruple
system of order 8 modeled by the eightfold cube, see a book chapter
by Michael Huber of Tübingen —
For further details, see the June 29 post Triangles in the Eightfold Cube.
See also, from an April 2013 philosophical conference:
| Abstract for a talk at the City University of New York:
The Experience of Meaning Once the question of truth is settled, and often prior to it, what we value in a mathematical proof or conjecture is what we value in a work of lyric art: potency of meaning. An absence of clutter is a feature of such artifacts: they possess a resonant clarity that allows their meaning to break on our inner eye like light. But this absence of clutter is not tantamount to ‘being simple’: consider Eliot’s Four Quartets or Mozart’s late symphonies. Some truths are complex, and they are simplified at the cost of distortion, at the cost of ceasing to be truths. Nonetheless, it’s often possible to express a complex truth in a way that precipitates a powerful experience of meaning. It is that experience we seek — not simplicity per se , but the flash of insight, the sense we’ve seen into the heart of things. I’ll first try to say something about what is involved in such recognitions; and then something about why an absence of clutter matters to them. |
For the talk itself, see a YouTube video.
The conference talks also appear in a book.
The book begins with an epigraph by Hilbert —
“Unsheathe your dagger definitions.” — James Joyce, Ulysses
The “triple cross” link in the previous post referenced the eightfold cube
as a structure that might be called the trinity stone .
Or: "What Dreams May Come"
(For the foxtail girl)
"Most religious beliefs are not true. But here’s the crux.
The emotional brain doesn’t care. It doesn’t operate on
the grounds of true and false. Emotions are not true or false.
Even a terrible fear inside a dream is still a terrible fear."
— Stephen T. Asma in the New York Times philosophy
column "The Stone" today
See also Triple Cross.
In greater depth:
Posts tagged on131004, a tag derived from a date in
a Google search today …
For enthusiasts of symbology, a webpage illustrated here this morning —
This morning's review of this Ajna webpage was suggested by posts from
the Oct. 4, 2013, date in the Google crux search above.
"Deutsche Ordnung." — Yul Brynner
in the 1966 film "Triple Cross"
From "Plato Thanks the Academy," March 19, 2014 —
“Click on fanciful .”
A possible result —
See also "Triple Cross."
The Washington Post yesterday evening —
|
Kay Starr, ferociously expressive singer By Adam Bernstein November 3 at 8:01 PM Kay Starr, a ferociously expressive singer whose ability to infuse swing, pop and country songs with her own indelible, bluesy stamp made her one of the most admired recording artists of her generation, died Nov. 3 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 94. … |
Midrash —
Yesterday afternoon's post "Triple Cross" and …
Click image for further details.
* Title adapted from a film released on Jan. 8, 2010.
See also this journal on that date.
A New York Times piece today on author Donald Antrim:
“The next project is a novel ‘about’ (having loosely to do with)
his father, Harry, a T. S. Eliot scholar who wrote a well-regarded
monograph on the poet.”
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
From Harry T. Antrim’s 1967 thesis on Eliot:
“That words can be made to reach across the void
left by the disappearance of God (and hence of all
Absolutes) and thereby reestablish some basis of
relation with forms existing outside the subjective
and ego-centered self has been one of the chief
concerns of the first half of the twentieth century.”
An epigraph selected by Sullivan for a 2002 Harper’s Magazine
article, “Horseman, Pass By“—
Far back, far back in our dark soul
the horse prances.
— D. H. Lawrence
A related image from pure mathematics
(a source of Absolutes unrelated to theology):
See April 9, 2004, for a post on the “Horseman” article.
The Plane of Time
From tomorrow's NY Times Book Review, Geoff Dyer's review of DeLillo's new novel Point Omega is now online—
"The book begins and ends with Douglas Gordon’s film project '24 Hour Psycho' (installed at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan in 2006), in which the 109-minute Hitchcock original is slowed so that it takes a full day and night to twitch by. DeLillo conveys with haunting lucidity the uncanny beauty of 'the actor’s eyes in slow transit across his bony sockets,' 'Janet Leigh in the detailed process of not knowing what is about to happen to her.' Of course, DeLillo being DeLillo, it’s the deeper implications of the piece— what it reveals about the nature of film, perception and time— that detain him. As an unidentified spectator, DeLillo is mesmerized by the 'radically altered plane of time': 'The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw.'
This prologue and epilogue make up a phenomenological essay on one of the rare artworks of recent times to merit the prefix 'conceptual.'"
Related material:
Steering a Space-Plane
(February 2, 2003)
Holly Day
(February 3, 2010)
Attitude Adjustment
(February 3, 2010)
Cover illustration by Stephen Savage,
NY Times Book Review,
Feb. 2 (Candlemas), 2003
“We live the time that a match flickers.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson, Aes Triplex
Philosophy
From today’s New York Times:
“Philip Hamburger, a writer for The New Yorker for more than six decades whose meticulously calibrated inflections — sober, droll and everything in between — helped create and nurture the magazine’s reputation for urbanity, died on Friday [April 23, Shakespeare’s birthday] at Columbia Presbyterian Center in Manhattan. He was 89….
Although he had a light touch, reflecting his own affability, there were times when he did not seek to amuse.”
From Friday’s rather unamusing log24 entry on the philosophy of mathematical proof, a link to a site listed in the Open Directory under
Society: Philosophy: Philosophy of Logic: Truth Definitions —
“See also The Story Theory of Truth.”
From the weekend edition (April 24-25) of aldaily.com, a Jew’s answer to Pilate’s question:
With a philosophy degree you can ask such difficult questions as “What is truth?”, “Can we know the good?”, and “Do you want fries with that?”… more»
Whether Hamburger’s last Friday was in any sense a “good” Friday, I do not know.
Related religious meditations….
From Holy Thursday, April 8, 2004:
The Triple Crown of Philosophy,
which links to a Hamburger song, and
from Good Friday, April 9, 2004,
an unorthodox portrait of a New Yorker as St. Peter — from Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation of Christ.”
The many connoisseurs of death who admire Mel Gibson’s latest film can skip the final meditation, from the admirable Carol Iannone:
They, as someone once said, have their reward.
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