Saturday, September 15, 2018
Satire on Saturday Night
See as well some other remarks from March 28, 2014.
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Ig Nobel “One Plus One”
Jean-Luc Godard in this journal on Thursday —
"I perceived . . . cinema is that which is between things,
not things [themselves] but between one and another."
Also on Thursday —
"Scientific luminaries gathered at Harvard University’s
historic Sanders Theatre on Thursday to honor
notable achievements this year…. It was the
28th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony …."
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Axioms
Update of 10:18 AM the same day —
See also Logicomix in this journal and, at Harvard,
http://www.math.harvard.edu/~mazur/ —
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September 6, 2018: Eric Maskin, Amartya Sen and I
are giving a course this semester: 'Axiomatic Reasoning'
(PHIL 273B). Introduction to Axiomatic Reasoning gives a
general sense of what we intend to cover.
Update of 10:48 AM the same day —
See Log24 on the date of Tieszen's death.
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Eidetic Reduction in Geometry
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"Husserl is not the greatest philosopher of all times. — Kurt Gödel as quoted by Gian-Carlo Rota Some results from a Google search — Eidetic reduction | philosophy | Britannica.com Eidetic reduction, in phenomenology, a method by which the philosopher moves from the consciousness of individual and concrete objects to the transempirical realm of pure essences and thus achieves an intuition of the eidos (Greek: “shape”) of a thing—i.e., of what it is in its invariable and essential structure, apart … Phenomenology Online » Eidetic Reduction
The eidetic reduction: eidos. Method: Bracket all incidental meaning and ask: what are some of the possible invariate aspects of this experience? The research Eidetic reduction – New World Encyclopedia Sep 19, 2017 – Eidetic reduction is a technique in Husserlian phenomenology, used to identify the essential components of the given phenomenon or experience. |
For example —
The reduction of two-colorings and four-colorings of a square or cubic
array of subsquares or subcubes to lines, sets of lines, cuts, or sets of
cuts between* the subsquares or subcubes.
See the diamond theorem and the eightfold cube.
* Cf. posts tagged Interality and Interstice.
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