Friday, December 31, 2010

DNA

Sharpshooter
Marksman
Diana
DNA
Prov. 16:11 
"A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work."


Morning Mist Over Cape Hood, Columbia River Gorge, Washington
 
New Years Celebration, St. Anton am Arlberg, Tyrol, Austria
 
 
 Green and buildings Intermingle
by  smath 101
 Chess: "DNA" "Diana" "Sharpshooter" "Marksman"

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Mark

Mark
Viña
Frame
Cuadra
Angiosperm
Angelus
Communications
Prov. 16:1 
"The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD."


Trotting Horse at Sunset, Dyersville, Iowa
 Chess: "Mark" "Viña" "Uva" "Cuadra" "Escuadra" "Frame" "Dorian Gray" "A Raisin in the Sun" 

Laws of Form 

 The position is simply this. In ordinary algebra, complex values are accepted as a matter of course, and the more advanced techniques would be impossible without them. In Boolean algebra (and thus, for example, in all our reasoning processes) we disallow them. Whitehead and Russell introduced a special rule, which they called the Theory of Types, expressly to do so. Mistakenly, as it now turns out. So, in this field, the more advanced techniques, although not impossible, simply don't yet exist. At the present moment we are constrained, in our reasoning processes, to do it the way it was done in Aristotle's day. The poet Blake might have had some insight into this, for in 1788 he wrote that 'reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.'
Recalling Russell's connexion with the Theory of Types, it  was with some trepidation that I approached him in 1967 with the proof that it was unnecessary. To my relief he was delighted. The Theory was, he said, the most arbitrary thing he and Whitehead had ever had to do, not really a theory but a stopgap, and he was glad to have lived long enough to see the matter resolved.
Put as simply as I can make it, the resolution is as follows. All we have to show is that the self-referential paradoxes, discarded with the Theory of Types, are no worse than similar
self-referential paradoxes, which are considered quite acceptable,in the ordinary theory of equations.
The most famous such paradox in logic is in the statement, 'This statement is false.'
Suppose we assume that a statement falls into one of three categories, true, false, or meaningless, and that a meaningful statement that is not true must be false, and one that is not false must be true. The statement under consideration does not appear to be meaningless (some philosophers have claimed that it is, but it is easy to refute this), so it must be true or false. If it is true, it must be, as it says, false. But if it is false, since this is what it says, it must be true. It has not hitherto been noticed that we have an equally vicious paradox in ordinary equation theory, because we have carefully guarded ourselves against expressing it this way. Let us now do so. We will make assumptions analogous to those above. We assume that a number can be either positive, negative, or zero.
We assume further that a nonzero number that is not positive must be negative, and one that is not negative must be positive. We now consider the equation
Of course, as everybody knows, the paradox in this case is resolved by introducing a fourth class of number, called imaginary,
so that we can say the roots of the equation above are ± /, where / is a new kind of unity that consists of a square root of minus one.
What we do in Chapter 11 is extend the concept to Boolean algebras, which means that a valid argument may contain not just three classes of statement, but four: true, false, meaningless, and imaginary. The implications of this, in the fields of logic, philosophy, mathematics, and even physics, are profound.
What is fascinating about the imaginary Boolean values, once we admit them, is the light they apparently shed on our concepts of matter and time. It is, I guess, in the nature of us all to wonder why the universe appears just the way it does.
Why, for example, does it not appear more symmetrical? Well if you will be kind enough, and patient enough, to bear with me through the argument as it develops itself in this text, you will I think see, even though we begin it as symmetrically as we know how, that it becomes, of its own accord, less and lessso as we proceed.      


                                              G SPENCER-BROWN 
                                              Cambridge, England 
                                               Maundy Thursday 1972 

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Parker

Nevada
Carson City
Parker
Driver
Prov. 16:33 
"The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD."
The Calm After the Storm


Chess: "Nevada" "Parker" "Carson City" "Driver"

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Maurice

Mauricio Solís
Windsor
Buenos Aires
Manhattan
Prov. 16:3 
"Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established."
 Tranquil Sunrise, Mount Washington State Forest, Massachusetts
Chess: "Maurice" "Sombrero de Gaspar" "Buenos Aires" "Manhattan" "Windsor" "Mauricio Solís" "Unicorn" "Obelisk"
 
"And wars have that respect for his repose,
       As winds for halcyons, when they breed at sea." 
John Dryden: Heroic Stanzas 
On The Death Of Oliver Cromwell

Monday, December 20, 2010

Mount

Mount
Prov. 16:6 
"By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil."



Holiday Horses
 Chess: "Mount"

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Cautelar

Recognizance
Own
Properties
Pagoda
Kingfisher

Prov. 16:4 
"The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil."


Buddha Pagoda 
by swirlybird





 Sea Breeze, Aruba Island





Kingfisher in Flight, Romania
by Joe Petersburger /Corbis
Chess: "Pagoda""Kingfisher" "Halcyon" "Own" "Properties" "Recognizance" "Cautelar" "Fianza"
"And wars have that respect for his repose,
As winds for halcyons when they breed at sea."   
John Dryden :  Heroic Stanzas :Oliver Cromwell  36
 

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Breastplate

Japan
Grand Teton
Oahu
1Kings 4:29 
"And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore."
View From Mount Omine, Yoshino-Kumano National Park, Japan

 Guest X Ranch, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
 Pali Lookout, Oahu

Chess: "Japan" "Oahu" "Grand Teton" "Breastplate"