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Climacus to his Readers or: How Philosophy Is Like the Weather in Alabama

Posted on December 1, 2011 by

From “A Satisfaction to Note,” the opening preface to Kierkegaard’s Johannes Climacus, sometimes called De Omnibus Dubitandem Est: Someone who supposes that philosophy has never in the world been so near to solving its problems (to explaining all secrets) as now, … Continue reading →

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For the Logicians and Mathematicians

Posted on November 28, 2011 by

Here’s an XKCD post from a few days ago that you might enjoy. It’s called “Set Theory”: The alternate text for this one is excellent, too: “Proof of Zermelo’s well-ordering theorem given the Axiom of Choice: 1: Take S to … Continue reading →

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A Certain … Certainty.

Posted on October 31, 2011 by

I have been a bit lax on the writing as of late. This is due to a combination of bad sleep habits and other such things. Anyway, here’s a little gem I noticed yesterday while reading. (I find that it … Continue reading →

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Leibniz and the (Less-Than) Ideal Language

Posted on October 17, 2011 by

From Preface to the General Science, 1677: Whence it is manifest that if we could find characters or signs appropriate for expressing all our thoughts as definitely and as exactly as arithmetic expresses number or geometric analysis between lines, we … Continue reading →

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