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Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Design Logic

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 7:48 pm

From this journal on November 21, 2011 . . .

Joseph T. Clark, S. J., Conventional Logic and Modern Logic:
A Prelude to Transition
  (Philosophical Studies of the American
Catholic Philosophical Association, III) Woodstock, Maryland:
Woodstock College Press, 1952—

Alonzo Church, "Logic: formal, symbolic, traditional," Dictionary of Philosophy  (New York: Philosophical Library, 1942), pp. 170-182. The contents of this ambitious Dictionary are most uneven. Random reference to its pages is dangerous. But this contribution is among its best. It is condensed. But not dense. A patient and attentive study will pay big dividends in comprehension. Church knows the field and knows how to depict it. A most valuable reference.

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Science Poetry

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:13 am

"One of the most fascinating recent areas of research
is known as plasticity, which has shown that some
organisms have the potential to adapt more rapidly
and more radically than was once thought.
Descriptions of plasticity are startling, bringing to mind
the kinds of wild transformations you might expect to find
in comic books and science fiction movies."

— "Do we need a new theory of evolution?,"
The Guardian, June 28, 2022, by Stephen Buranyi

Sunday, March 14, 2021

Liberation

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:54 am

Saturday, December 12, 2020

Globe Services

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:16 pm

“Perhaps only Shakespeare manages to create at the highest level
both images and people; and even Hamlet  looks second-rate
compared with Lear .”

— Iris Murdoch, “Against Dryness,” 1961

Byline from a 2019 post — ‘GLOBE STAFF AND NEW SERVICES’ —

Byline: 'GLOBE STAFF AND NEW SERVICES'

Above: Dr. Harrison PopeHarvard professor of psychiatry,
demonstrates the use of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
“block design” subtest.

 — From a Log24 search for “Harrison Pope.”

Related drama — Other posts tagged Plastic Elements.

Friday, June 26, 2020

Distancing

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:04 am

“But for all its success, Mr. Webb largely distanced himself
from ‘The Graduate,’ which featured a Buck Henry and
Calder Willingham screenplay . . . . ”

— Harrison Smith in The Washington Post  yesterday

Related material —

the liberation of the plastic elements.”

Sunday, January 12, 2020

Interconnecting the Meaning Fragments

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:01 pm

"Meaning fragments" is a phrase from the previous post.

See Wechsler in this journal.

Wechsler blocks (illustrating the 'Blockheads' theme)

Related material —

"the liberation of the plastic elements."

Fragments

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:40 pm

From this journal on June 25, 2009

“… T. S. Eliot tried to recompose, in Four Quartets,
the fragments he had grieved over in The Waste Land.”

— “Beauty and Desecration,” Roger Scruton

From The Guardian  today —

From this journal this morning

“The spatial conception interconnects the meaning fragments
and binds them together . . . .

— S. Giedion, introduction to Language of Vision  by Gyorgy Kepes

Plastic Elements

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 7:07 am

"Step by step, Kepes follows the liberation of the plastic elements:
lines, planes, and colors, and the creation of a world of forms of our own.
The spatial conception interconnects the meaning fragments and
binds them together just as in another period perspective did when it used
a single station point for naturalistic representation."

— S. Giedion, introduction to Language of Vision  by Gyorgy Kepes 

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