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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