Hedge

Hedge
Edge
Croton
Caribbean
Crow's Nest 
Sir Anthony Eden

1Chron.1:10
 "And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth."

 THE CHIEF CHARACTER in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world’s most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east. Although bounded on the south and west by continental land masses, it is the islands that give the Caribbean its unique charm. On the north lies the large and important trio: Puerto Rico, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) and great Cuba. On the east are those heavenly small islands that so artistically dot the blue waves: Antigua, Guadeloupe, Martinique, All Saints, Trinidad and remote Barbados among them. The southern shore is formed by the South American countries of Venezuela and Colombia and the Central American nation of Panamá. The western shore is often overlooked, but it contains both the exciting republics of Central America—Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras—and the wonderful, mysterious peninsula of Yucatán where the ancient Maya flourished."~~~James A. Michener: CARIBBEAN Ch.1 A HEDGE OF CROTON 

 

Codiaeum variegatum 'Petra'. Croton Petra

 Crow's Nest (carajo)

"The greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation." - St. Augustine pic.twitter.com/eh6M0kB0Of

— Catholic Thinker (@ThinkerCatholic) April 26, 2019

Hedge

 "His simplicity sets off the satire, and gives it a finer edge"~~~William Hazlitt

Sir Anthony Eden

 Dragon hedge

 "shrouded from head to toe in the habiliments of the grave"~~~Poe

 

"his habitation is a flimsy affair of canes and thatch"~~~Lesley B. Simpson

Edge

Chess: "Hedge" "Edge" "Croton" "Caribbean" "Crow's Nest" "Sir Anthony Eden"

Aristotle

Aristotle 
Zacatecas
Wittgenstein
Turkey
Russell
The Key to Rebecca
Logical Positivism
History 
Bacon
Alex Wolff
Izaak Walton

Jas.2: 24
"Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only."

Aristotle

"Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist. The world is everything that is the case."~~~Wittgenstein

 "There are interpretations that see the Tractatus as espousing realism, i.e., as positing the independent existence of objects, states of affairs, and facts. That this realism is achieved via a linguistic turn is recognized by all (or most) interpreters, but this linguistic perspective does no damage to the basic realism that is seen to start off the Tractatus (“The world is all that is the case”) and to run throughout the text (“Objects form the substance of the world” (TLP 2.021)). Such realism is also taken to be manifested in the essential bi-polarity of propositions;"~~~Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

 

Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russel and eventually Ludwig Wittgenstein led positivism into a new era – the era of the linguistic turn – by focusing on the statements which we have to make wherever we are concerned with “facts” and wherever we construct models that refer to facts.

The language of logic became important here. A statement of a fact is of scientific value as soon as we can think of a verification or a falsification, of research to substantiate or dismiss this statement. What you have stated can turn out to be “the case” – as in a “positive” medical test result in which anti-bodies were detected, or it can turn out to be “not the case” as in a negative test result, when you show no signs of the infection.

The area of statements that “make sense” in a research project is apparently wide. “Earth has got two moons” is a statement that makes sense in a scientific exploration, even though we have already noted that this is not the case. We can easily discuss the requirements of a meaningful statement (meanigful in the sciences) and we can already state that those statements that turn out to be positively true are a logical subset of all the imaginable statements of things as they could perhaps be.

 

 

Max Verstappen, Red Bull

 

 

 

 

 

 

Acropolis, Athens

EL CASTILLO - The Temple of Kukulcan, Chichén Itzá, Mexico 

The Mayans succeeded in an almost impossible mission with the completion of their structures at Chichén Itzá. A poetic combination of form, style, function, religion, philosophy, mathematics and geometry. A true symbiosis of all of their intelligence and art in one location, to be studied and admired by all that visit. 

By far the most impressive structure of  the complex is the "Pyramid of Kukulcan" * (usually called "El Castillo").  This is a square-based, stepped pyramid approximately 30 meters tall (with the temple on top), constructed by the Mayans ca 1000-1200 AD, directly upon the multiple foundations of previous temples. It was mysteriously abandoned along with the surrounding city of Chichen Itza by 1400 AD.

* Kukulcan is the Mayan name for the Feathered Serpent God (also known as Quetzalcoatl to the Aztecs).

The pyramid has special astronomical significance and layout.  Each face of the pyramid has a stairway with ninety-one steps, which together with the shared step of the platform at the top, add up to 365, the number of days in a year. These stairways also divide the nine terraces of each side of the pyramid into eighteen segments, representing the eighteen months of the Mayan calendar. 

The pyramid's design reflects the equinoxes and solstices of our solar year in a spectacular game of light and shadow. During the equinoxes, the setting sun casts a shadow of a serpent on the northern steps of the pyramid.

For a thousand years, the slanting rays of the setting sun have played a spectacular shadow and light game with this great Mayan pyramid. During the equinoxes, at the appointed hour, the shadow of the Feathered Serpent, Kukulcan appears on the northern stairway...and vanishes.

"the great bulk of necessary work can never be anything but painful"~~~Bertrand Russell

 'And when men wandered from the central plaza out to the edge of town they saw workmen, Indians mostly, patiently cutting through the rocky earth to provide foundations for a building that would be of surprising size. The GREY-CLAD cleric in charge verified the news."It's to stand here...just as you see it forming." '~~~JAMES A. Michener: TEXAS Ch.2 THE MISSION p.73

Catedral Basílica de la Asunción de María de Zacatecas, Zacatecas.

1729-1772

"the great bulk of necessary work can never be anything but painful"~~~Bertrand Russell

Wild Turkey Head

"Now, as there are many actions, arts, and sciences, their ends also are many; the end of the medical art is health, that of shipbuilding a vessel, that of strategy victory, that of economics wealth. But where such arts fall under a single capacity- as bridle-making and the other arts concerned with the equipment of horses fall under the art of riding, and this and every military action under strategy, in the same way other arts fall under yet others- in all of these the ends of the master arts are to be preferred to all the subordinate ends; for it is for the sake of the former that the latter are pursued."~~~Aristotle: Nichomachean Ethics, Bk.1

Bertrand Russell on Fearing Thought

The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton

Lord Bacon

The Key To Rebecca; Zuleika Rivera

THE KEY TO REBECCA, Isaac or Constantine XI, Turkey?

El ruiseñor, en todas las lenguas del orbe, goza de nombres melodiosos (nigtingale, nachtigall, usignolo), como si los hombres instintivamente hubieran querido que éstos no desmerecieran del canto que los maravilló. Tanto lo han exaltado los poetas que ahora es un poco irreal; menos afín a la calandria que al ángel. Desde los enigmas sajones del Libro de Exeter (“yo, antiguo cantor de la tarde, traigo a los nobles alegría en las villas”) hasta la trágica Atalanta de Swinburne, el infinito ruiseñor ha cantado en la literatura británica; Chaucer y Shakespeare lo celebran, Milton y Matthew Arnold, pero a John Keats unimos fatalmente su imagen como a Blake la del tigre.

Chess: "Turkey" "Russell" "The Key to Rebecca" "Alex Wolff" "History" "Bacon" "Logical Positivism" Aristotle" "Chicchen Itza" "Zacatecas"

La Brea

La Brea
Tar Pits
The Pitch
Los Angeles
Jerusalem
Calafatear
Alquitrán 
Shipwright
Construcción Naval 
Zorro

Luke 24:49
"And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high."

Shipwright

An expedition's shipwrights building a brigantine, 1541

Calafateando un barco con brea

Calafatear y pintar una embarcación es cuestión de técnica, de maña, de experiencia y buen hacer

 El Calafate, Argentina: 
Perhaps the biggest tourist attraction in the area, you have to venture out to Perito Moreno Glacier to have a look at this 70-meters-thick slab of brilliant blue ice.

Tar bubble at La Brea, Los Angeles, California.

Park La Brea (Los Angeles) - 2019 - Los Angeles, CA

Outside the Page Museum of Los Angeles, life-size replicas of several extinct mammals are featured at the Rancho La Brea in Hancock Park. Although commonly called the “tar pits,” the pools are actually comprised of asphalt.

Park La Brea, Los Angeles, CA

Stephen Shore. Beverly Boulevard and La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, California, June 21, 1975. 1975

Chess: "La Brea" "Tar Pits" "The Pitch" "Jerusalem" "Los Angeles" "Calafatear" "Alquitrán" "Shipwright" "Construcción Naval" "Zorro" 

Logical Positivism

Ernst Mach and Heinrich Hertz had considered that we were constructing models of the world and that our entire knowledge was in that sense constructed — nothing but interpretations of data.Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russel and eventually Ludwig Wittgenstein led positivism into a new era – the era of the linguistic turn – by focusing on the statements which we have to make wherever we are concerned with “facts” and wherever we construct models that refer to facts.
The language of logic became important here. A statement of a fact is of scientific value as soon as we can think of a verification or a falsification, of research to substantiate or dismiss this statement. What you have stated can turn out to be “the case” – as in a “positive” medical test result in which anti-bodies were detected, or it can turn out to be “not the case” as in a negative test result, when you show no signs of the infection.
The area of statements that “make sense” in a research project is apparently wide. “Earth has got two moons” is a statement that makes sense in a scientific exploration, even though we have already noted that this is not the case. We can easily discuss the requirements of a meaningful statement (meanigful in the sciences) and we can already state that those statements that turn out to be positively true are a logical subset of all the imaginable statements of things as they could perhaps be.
The statement about the two moons orbiting Earth makes sense, because we have an idea of what situation we should have if we were to conclude: yes this is the case. (Some planets actually do have more than one moon, as we have found out.) A scientific statement is connected to a notion of the situation in which we would verify or falsify the assertion.
Can we gather all our knowledge about the world in factual statements? – Wittgenstein asked in his ground breaking Tractatus (1922). And: What are the limits of this our knowledge if we can?
Both questions are the two crucial positivistic questions which Comte had already asked it in his Dicours sur l’esprit positif (1844), §13. Positivists are concerned with the limitations of their statements and of scientific research in general; and they try not to stretch their statements into metaphysical speculative spheres.
The first question – can we use fact statements with the aim to give a picture of the world as far as we experience it? – received a positive answer in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: Whatever we note about the world or a more specific object of our research, we will be able to cope with it in factual statements. Any kind of scientific representation of the world is reducible to fact statements. If I identify an object up to the point that I can tell it apart from another similar object, then this is because I can make factual statements of these distinctive specificities. Translated into a banal situation at the laundry, I will say “This actually is my jacket, I can identify it because it has this little flaw, which I remember”. I can make photographs of the specific aspects to make the identification easier, yet the images will again only make sense because I will be able to translate the into statements of facts: “you see on this picture this specific detail which you find only in this objet none of the others on this table…”
Whatever I know as special of the world can be put into statements of aspects I use to identify it. There are, however statements that are not verifiable in the same sense: “Thou shalt not kill” is a statement of quite another class. I may say: “It is a fact that this is a Biblical command, the statement is found in Exodus 20:13”, but how do I prove that it is a fact of the world I am experiencing? What would the world look like if the statement was true? What would it look like if it were false? The statement is non-descriptive, on another level, voluntary one might say.

Causality is another point of interest here. I can claim: “an object topples as soon as its centre of gravity is no longer above its basis”. I could alternatively claim: “an object topples because its centre of gravity is no longer above its basis”. Statement two introduces a new force, the force of causality, into the sphere of statements, but what is the test with which I can determine that statement two is needed and that statement one will not do the job in a description of things as we experience them, or in a grognosis of events? If we restrict our sciences to entities we need in order to describe things and to foretell events we will do without causality, so Wittgenstein in a new consideration of what David Hume had already considererd and what Comte had reaffirmed.
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s considerations were in the 1920s embedded in a move of debates promoted by groups such as the Vienna Circle with Rudolf Carnap, Kurt Gödel, Hans Hahn, Otto Neurath. The second wave of considerations that dealt basically with language and the questions how we link our statements to the world inspired linguists and philosophers in the greater movement of the linguistic turn that led toward structuralism and post-structuralism as large interdisciplinary movements of thought.

Will Smith

Will Smith
Austria
San Mateo
John Singer Sargent
Caddo Lake
Logical Positivism
Log Cabin
Men in Black
The Little Black Dress
Cashmere
Casimir

Psalm 91:1
"He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty."

Madame X by John Singer Sargent

"Causality is another point of interest here. I can claim: “an object topples as soon as its centre of gravity is no longer above its basis”. I could alternatively claim: “an object topples because its centre of gravity is no longer above its basis”. Statement two introduces a new force, the force of causality, into the sphere of statements, but what is the test with which I can determine that statement two is needed and that statement one will not do the job in a description of things as we experience them, or in a prognosis of events? If we restrict our sciences to entities we need in order to describe things and to foretell events we will do without causality, so Wittgenstein in a new consideration of what David Hume had already considererd and what Comte had reaffirmed."

Aladdin, Will Smith

 

The Calling of St. Matthew, by Caravaggio

Austria 

Caddo Lake, Texas

Logical Positivism, Ludwig Wittgenstein

Log Cabin Syrup

Cashmere

Vienna Circle, Wittgenstein, MIB

 Audrey Hepburn in the "little black dress" | 1961 | Courtesy of Flickr

Chess: "Will Smith" "Austria" "San Mateo" "John Singer Sargent" "Caddo Lake" "Logical Positivism" "Log Cabin" "Men in Black" "Little Black Dress" "Cashmere" "Casimir"

1qui habitat in abscondito Excelsi in umbraculo Domini commorabitur. 

 1Celui qui demeure sous l'abri du Très Haut Repose à l'ombre du -Tout Puissant.  

1 Wer im Schutz des Höchsten wohnt, bleibt im Schatten des Allmächtigen. 

1 ^[a] El que habita al abrigo del Altísimo morará bajo la sombra del Omnipotente.^[b] 

 1Chi dimora nel riparo dell'Altissimo, riposa all'ombra dell'Onnipotente.

 1(90-1) Живущий под (under) кровом Всевышнего под сенью (shadow) Всемогущего покоится 

 1Aquele que mora escondido na presença do Deus altíssimo vive descansado à sombra do Deus todo-poderoso., 

1Celce stă supt ocrotirea Celui Prea Înalt, şi se odihneşte la umbra Celui Atoputernic, Ps.91