Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Thursday, November 8, 2018
Geometry Lesson
From "The Trials of Device" (April 24, 2017) —
See also Wittgenstein in a search for "Ein Kampf " in this journal.
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Monday, April 24, 2017
The Trials of Device
"A blank underlies the trials of device"
— Wallace Stevens, "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" (1950)
A possible meaning for the phrase "the trials of device" —
See also Log24 posts mentioning a particular device, the pentagram .
For instance —
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Friday, September 16, 2016
Wittgenstein’s Pentagram
Related material —
See the story of a British man who reportedly had a doctorate in
physics and mathematics and became a witchcraft enthusiast.
He is said to have died at 85 on September 11, 2016.
As Wittgenstein noted, it is not always clear whether the pentagram
expresses a mathematical or an experiential proposition.
For some mathematical propositions related to the pentagram,
see (for instance) John Baez's slides for his 2008 Glasgow
lecture on the number 5.
For som experiential propositions, see Pentagram in this journal.
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A Counting-Pattern
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