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notes for Carnap’s ‘Introduction to Symbolic Logic and its Applications’ (TRM’s notes)
Introduction to Symbolic Logic R. Carnap Part one System of Symbolic Logic Chapter A The Simple Language A The Problem of Symbolic Logic The purpose of symbolic language. A language A schema Pure and applied Part three – more comprehensive Treatment of concepts of any kind Frege, Russell, Hilbert Logic of relations Axiomatic method ‘Principia…
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‘Ancient Aliens’ History Channel’s TV Episodes (TRM’s notes)
History Channel’s – Ancient Alien Series (TRM’s notes) Episode One: The Evidence – Saqqara, Egypt – Saqqara Bird – Columbia – El Dorado – Magdalena River – Tolima Plane – Childress ‘Technology of the Gods’ – India – 11,000 yr. old civilization – Vimana…
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Neuromancer W. Gibson (TRM’s hilites)
Neuromancer William Gibson Velcro Christian Science precis Straylite Wintermute Tessier-Ashpool Akai The Hosaka Bell Europa Angara Podhamennaya Screaming Fist Corto Nightwing Mole IX cybernetics Virus Cabal Heroin Thailand Killer Bonn Wichita bankroller Schizophrenia Fantan Zhonshen Beyoglu Shinjuku suit Fener Sanyo Sultan Hatice 1660 Yeheyuans Seraglio Turing heat Trenchcoat Porsche glasses Space-station ganga Bon bon .357…
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Ritual Art and Knowledge (TRM’s high-lites) by Williams and Boyd
Ritual Art and Knowledge R. Williams and W. Boyd Preface noetic Theories of metaphor Theodore Jennings – a difference of analysis Dastur Dr. Firoze M. Kotwal Zoroaster Yasna Avesta Chapter I a) Art and Ritual Albert Camus: art as an instrument…
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Greek Mythology (lineage)
Greek Mythology (lineage) Cronos Son of Uranus – Ruler of the Universe Cronos’s Mother: Gaia Gaia’s Children included: Youngest: (hundred-handed) Hecatonchires and (one-eyed) Cyclopes, Uranus imprisons these two in Tartarus Gaia angered asks her other children to step forth and kill Uranus Cronos dutifully accepts the task Cronos castrates father Uranus and throws his testicles into…
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Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann (TRM’s highlights)
Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann The late Adrian Leverkuhn A musical genius In Freisburg on the Isar, 23 May, 1943, two years after Leverkuhn’s death – from the depths of night to deeper night. Viola d’ampore Descendant of the German humanists associated with ‘Letters of Obscure Men’, an heir to Reuchlin, Crotus of Dornheim, Mutianus,…
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Paul Klee – Pedagogical Sketchbook (TRM’s notes)
Introduction By Sibyl Moholy –Nagy ‘For the artist communication with nature remains the most essential condition. The artist is human; himself nature; part of nature within natural space.’ This statement, written in 1923 by Paul Klee, was the Leitmotif of a creative life that derived almost equal inspiration from painting and from music. Man painted…
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Kandinsky (TRM’s notes)
Concerning the Spiritual in Art W. Kandinsky Preface Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow on December 4th, 1866 an aristocratic family father – a successful tea-merchant many years of study Academic success Odessa in the Crimea 1892 appointed lecturer in jurisprudence at Moscow University…
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Being and Time by Martin Heidegger (TRM’s notes)
Being and Time Martin Heidegger Foreword Perhaps the most celebrated philosophical work which Germany has produced in this century. one of the most important philosophical works of modern times. No other [twentieth century] text, besides the possible exception of Wittgenstein’s ‘Philosophical Investigations’ has exerted such a profound and enduring influence on the way philosophy is…
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W.V.O. Quine’s ‘Elementary Symbolic Logic’ (TRM’s hi-lites)
Elementary Logic W.V.O. Quine Revised edition Preface , 1980 ‘Mathematical Logic’ ‘Elementary Logic’, 1940 ‘Methods of Logic’ Godel Quantification theory admits of a complete proof procedure Boston, March 1980 Preface to Revised Edition Minimum essentials ‘Methods of Logic’ Skolem and Herbrand Testing procedure Proof technique Modernization of terminology Cantor Hilbert and Bernays Harvard, Massachusetts,…
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