The World of Dr. Justice
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Ex alieno largiri (XVIII)
Once again, we pluck roses from another’s hedge; click to view the garland wherein ‘twas woven.
"Clearly I have defeated this earthworm with my words -- imagine what I would have done with my fire-breathing fists."
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Raising a family is a two-penguin job
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The three main mediaeval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.
Gödel turned out to be an unadulterated Platonist, and apparently believed that an eternal ‘not’ was laid up in heaven, where virtuous logicians might hope to meet it hereafter.
Music hits the brain like sex. So can neuroscience distinguish between hearing an organ played and having one’s organs played with?
dandan daani dan, dann-dandan…
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