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.

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