Pirsig's Bozeman "top left brick."
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Monday, August 12, 2024
Physical
Jerome Griswold on a poem by Wallace Stevens:
Santayana says, “The suasion of sanity is physical:
if you cut your animal traces, you run mad”….
The reference is to
"the penultimate chapter of Scepticism and Animal Faith
( 'XXVI. Discernment of Spirit')."
An animal trace related to the previous post —
Griswold reportedly died on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022.
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Saturday, August 10, 2024
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Thursday, April 11, 2024
Devs: Hollywood Development Hell
From The Man Who Knew Infinity to The Man Who Knew Zero.
Related mathematics: The Diamond Theorem Correlation, which
results from interchanging infinity and zero in the figure below.
"Read something that means something."
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related posts.
Background — Relativity Problem in Log24.
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Thursday, May 7, 2020
Kant as Diamond Cutter
"He wished Kant were alive. Kant would have appreciated it.
That master diamond cutter."
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance , Part III.
Kant's "category theory" —
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"In the Transcendental Analytic, Kant deduces the table of twelve categories, or pure concepts of the understanding….
The categories must be 'schematized' because their non-empirical origin in pure understanding prevents their having the sort of sensible content that would connect them immediately to the objects of experience; transcendental schemata are mediating representations that are meant to establish the connection between pure concepts and appearances in a rule-governed way. Mathematical concepts are discussed in this context since they are unique in being pure but also sensible concepts: they are pure because they are strictly a priori in origin, and yet they are sensible since they are constructed in concreto . " — Shabel, Lisa, "Kant's Philosophy of Mathematics", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2016 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2016/entries/kant-mathematics/>. |
See also The Diamond Theorem and Octad.us.
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Monday, December 11, 2017
The Diamond Theorem at SASTRA
The following IEEE paper is behind a paywall,
but the first page is now available for free
at deepdyve.com —
For further details on the diamond theorem, see
finitegeometry.org/sc/ or the archived version at . . .
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