Tag: mathematics

  • Drawbridges

    Drawbridges

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  • Epideictics II: “All true theorems have corollaries”

    Epideictics II: “All true theorems have corollaries”

      CHIEFTAIN — Conan! What is worst in life? CONAN THE BARBARIAN — To help your friends, see them parade in front of you and hear the exultation of their women. In the Aristotelian canon the method of logic is discussed in full continuity with the methods of rhetoric and even aspects of persuasion. In this older…

  • Hell and Eternal Damnation

    Hell and Eternal Damnation

    I. Does the theory of general axiology have axiological implications? In the generic sense we have sketched an eschatology (the “switcharoo”) out of a pedagogical scenario of what “getting to general axiology” look like. This pedagogy was illustrated with delirant heavenlike visions meant to convey both its infinite worthwhileness and its boundless cost — a valuation of…