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The Revolutionary .. ‘If’: The Revolutionary .. ‘If’
Victor Howard Dudman: Victor Howard Dudman
Mark Thakkar: Mark Thakkar
Amyas Merivale: Amyas Merivale
…and somebody else: …and somebody else
present: present
The Defining Moment of the 20th Century: The Defining Moment of the 20th Century
‘And’ versus ‘But’: ‘And’ versus ‘But’
Anita likes coffee and Ralph likes tea
Anita likes coffee but Ralph likes tea
Syntax: Syntax
‘And’ is a coordinating conjunction
And is very promiscuous….
It can co-ordinate …..
Nouns: Nouns
‘men and women’
‘cheese and pickle’
‘brains and beauty’
‘health and safety’
Pronouns: Pronouns
‘you and me’
‘him and her’
‘us and them’
Determiners: Determiners
‘this and that’
‘each and every’
‘one and only’
Adjectives: Adjectives
‘black and blue’
‘tall and thin’
‘old and tired’
Verbs: Verbs
‘laughed and cried’
‘aimed and fired’
‘shot and killed’
‘ate and ate’
Adverbs: Adverbs
‘slowly and surely’
‘loudly and softly’
‘fast and furiously’
Prepositions: Prepositions
‘up and down’
‘in and out’
‘to and fro’
Sentences: Sentences
‘I live in Oxford and my sister lives in York’
‘Peter lost his reputation and he lost his job’
Semantics: Semantics
‘And’ presents its co-ordinands as
taken together
Unsignalled Information: Unsignalled Information
Information ingredient in the message
Nowhere encoded in the broadcast signal
Read in by the receiver to make sense of the message
Unsignalled Information: Unsignalled Information
Varies enormously, case by case.
Is always precise.
Slide22: George and Tony laid waste to Iraq
Tony and Cherie got married
Posh Spice got married and had a baby
Posh Spice had a baby and got married
Helen and Kinch are colleagues
She left in a flood of tears and a Sedan chair
Gavrilo Princip stepped out of the crowd and shot Archduke Ferdinand: Gavrilo Princip stepped out of the crowd and shot Archduke Ferdinand
Slide24: And now, the end is near…
Mrs. Doyle talks and talks and talks..
The French like snails and garlic
Peter lied to Parliament and lost his portfolio
Slide25: ‘And’ invites an integration
‘But’ demands a split
Slide26: ‘And’ versus ‘But’
Anita likes coffee and Ralph likes tea
Anita likes coffee but Ralph likes tea
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ball0888: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ball0888
Go to the /logic directory, follow the link to
The Revolutionary Formalizer
And click on ‘And’
Slide29:
“Lose your mind, and come to your senses”
Letter to Theo: Letter to Theo “I have discovered a truly wonderful new method of painting………
…….I must be utterly possessed by my emotions, and invest the whole of myself into every brush-stroke…
….it is a process, and I am part of it…”
Vincent
Gavrilo Princip stepped out of the crowd and shot Archduke Ferdinand: Gavrilo Princip stepped out of the crowd and shot Archduke Ferdinand
Vasily Vasilyevich KANDINSKY: Vasily Vasilyevich KANDINSKY Lawyer
The Defining Moment of The Twentieth Century: The Defining Moment of The Twentieth Century April 4, 1897
The best-selling philosophy books of all time, OR The Madness that is America : The best-selling philosophy books of all time, OR The Madness that is America
Seven Theories of Human Nature
----Leslie Stevenson
Language, Truth and Logic
----Alfred Jules Ayer
Rules for the Direction of the Mind
----Benedict de Spinoza
AND………………………….
Die Fragmente der Vorsokratike: Die Fragmente der Vorsokratike Hermann Diels
und
Walther Kranz
Slide60: Hermann Diels
und
Walther Klanz
Heraclites: DK22b49a: Heraclites: DK22b49a
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Heraclites: Heraclites
Saturn vs. Neptune: Saturn vs. Neptune
Saturn vs. Neptune Parmenides vs. Heraclites: Saturn vs. Neptune Parmenides vs. Heraclites
Doctrines of Heraclites: Doctrines of Heraclites The world is a flux, and we are part of it
Everything is made of Fire, and Fire produces stability through chaos
Conflict and contradiction are fundamental. Order is superficial.
To grasp the Logos requires the mind to integrate with it.
Heraclites: DK22b49a: Heraclites: DK22b49a
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“Die Welt ist alles dass der Fall ist”
“Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, daruber muss man schweigen”
Philosophische Untersuchungen
“Ein Bild hielt uns gefangen”
Wittgenstein…..: Wittgenstein…..
……….rested the Tract-
atus on proof of the fact
that the world is the place
where what is is the case.
But later he took it all back.
---Martin Hollis
Double Dactyls: Double Dactyls Higgledy-piggledy (Invariant)
Higgledy piggledy
Higgledy piggledy
Da da da dum.
Higgledy-piggledy
Higgledy piggledy (All one word)
Higgledy piggledy
Da da da dum.
Dorothy Richardson: Dorothy Richardson Higgledy-piggledy,
Dorothy Richardson
wrote a new book with
the aid of her muse.
Though I don’t mean to be
uncomplimentary,
nothing much happens and
nobody screws.
Wittgenstein: Wittgenstein Higgledy-piggledy,
Ludvig von Wittgenstein
Said to a Junker with
whom he had erred:
“Don’t spill the beans to that
psychohistorian
William Warren S.
Bartley the Third.
Richard Rorty: Richard Rorty Higgledy-piggledy,
Richard Prof. Rorty - he
thought he’d be naughty by
trying to say
“Reason, Truth, Knowledge are
phantasmagoria,
but still keep on talking and
drawing your pay.”
Investigations 115: “Ein Bild hielt uns gefangen”: Investigations 115: “Ein Bild hielt uns gefangen”
Principles of Gestalt Psychotherapy: Principles of Gestalt Psychotherapy The Organism is a Process…
…of Growth and Self-Regulation…
…which is part of the Field
Content vs. Process
The Death Layer
Integration and Split
AND vs. BUT
Integration of Polarities
Heraclites: DK22b49a: Heraclites: DK22b49a
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Solution to all outstanding problems of philosophy: Solution to all outstanding problems of philosophy
Solution to all outstanding problems in philosophy: Solution to all outstanding problems in philosophy
“Boss, when I think of these things, I get so full I cannot speak. And then I have to dance.”
Solutions to all outstanding problems in philosophy: Solutions to all outstanding problems in philosophy
“Lose your mind, and come to your senses”
Solutions to all outstanding problems in philosophy: Solutions to all outstanding problems in philosophy
“Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, daruber muss man tanzen”
Solution to all outstanding problems in philosophy: Solution to all outstanding problems in philosophy
Remember
AND
Solution to all outstanding problems in philosophy: Solution to all outstanding problems in philosophy
Forget
BUT