12/1/23

Philosophy in Comparison to Science (with Linguistic Epistemology)

 To contrast philosophy vs science, consider Husserl's 'Logical Investigations'; philosophy as rigorous science. Frege, Bretano, Whitehead and Russell, the 'Principia Mathematica and the Tractatus Logico Philosophicus'. Aristotle's classification system was rather useful in the day as well as his expression of logic. Leibniz also invented mathematical logic although he didn't publish it and speculated usefully about monads...and that 'atomistic idea of one dimensional bits of pure spirit equivalent to strings really is somewhat apropos for the contemporary description of quanta or energy units at the smallest scale- at least it isn't obviously refuted.

I believe that science is about physics and philosophy somewhat more concerning greater and speculative physics (aka metaphysics). Logic is a field of philosophy too. One field that is active is that of ethics and why it is that people can't get along in a practical way (such as in the border dispute in Ukraine). The parameters are a little too large for simple science experimentation to solve.

There are scientific investigations of the brain that are great of course, and also sociological observations of the behavior of individuals an groups yet packing together different fields and data, ideas and considering possibilities for ad hoc remedies to political choices that result in very harmful social outcomes is more the realm of philosophical activity I.M.O.

I enjoyed reading the Philosophy of Logic. Examples of good works are W.V.O. Quine's 'Word and Object', Strawson's 'Individuals' and Kripke's 'Naming and Necessity'. Wittgenstein's 'Blue and Brown Books' are also about language, and nominalism in a sense- quite philosophic. Also known as linguistic philosophy, the philosophy of logic is a primary tool for contemporary epistemology. When contrasting realism and nominalism having an idea of the values of words and what sort of lexicon they arise in is useful. One might consider The Critique of Pure Reason in light of the philosophy of logic and an emergent field that I would name 'Linguistic Epistemology'. That primarily would be simply the philosophy of logic.

11/29/23

Pluck the Day

Retrospection. A google search of carpe diem relates that literally it means ‘pluck the day’ rather than the usual ‘seize the day’. Once plucked the day is on a timer with limited life. Perhaps observation of the present differs from plucking the present part of a temporal exstasis. The latter is sort of a collapse of the Schrodinger wave function.

https://allpoetry.com/poem/8469247-Carpe-Diem-by-Robert-Frost

The Truth About Energy (what it really is)

 Energy is a term that describes and coincides with the primal quanta/field of being. It implicitly coheres in any unit of quanta/fields-even theoretical strings. It is the basic reference word for ‘We don’t really know what it is or how it works but witness it’s effects’. Everything at its core is evidently, action.

Energy is a term that describes and coincides with the primal quanta/field of being. It implicitly coheres in any unit of quanta/fields-even theoretical strings. It is the basic reference word for ‘We don’t really know what it is or how it works but witness it’s effects’. Everything at its core is evidently action.

Though Temporality Confers an Order, Thought Happens in More than a Linear Fashion

Thought occurs in more than a simple linear fashion, not necessarily as if it were a machine or computer with one or two states and courses for transitions. There may be innumerable paths to select destinations, as well as quantum jumps or downloads with eigenvalues incrementally changing or reverting to state as it was before.

One might consider the legend of Voltaire in a lightning storm suddenly flipped to faith from unbelief. His thought was not necessarily flowing lalong deliberation of theological speculation before the instantaneous electrical discharge at close range. Then afterword, after fear or inspiration from an external source to his own thought occurred and faded into the past., he might have a recurrence of doubt (or not, perhaps developing more faith). He would consider the experience of fear and trembling as subjective- even overly so, and move a little toward rationalism and a review of Descartes’ Meditations and wonder if he could trust his own way of thinking about certain matters rather than others, such as the certainty of his own existence because he is self-aware.

Biden Seeks Re-Election to Have Four More Years of Proxy War with Russia

If a Democrat President were to be elected in 2024, U.S. foreign policy would be likely to follow the crazy, counter-productive course of hostility to Russia four more years. Instead of peace and a robust, satisfying reconstruction of a borderland tax free, ecological economics free trade zone that could arise along the Deeper River the US party of slavery wants to enslave taxpayers to buying HIMARS rockets to kill Eurasians and enrich defense contractors, dark pool arms dealers and politician’s pockets.

If Elected; Trump Will Invoke Insurrection Act

 President Trump in January 2025 could use US troops to quell riotous American cities like Portland Oregon legally. The insurrection act allows US military forces to face down insurrections.

It makes me wonder though, as I look to the east, if any of the main Republican presidential candidates can jump from an aircraft at 7000 feet or more like Pres Bush 41? That candidate would deserve a 2nd look.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-hints-expanded-role-military-us-legacy-law-105172859

Supper on the Eastern Front (a poem)

 

    A spaghetti like that Scriabin song
fate oodles it's way along
solitary chords placed à plate
with a single note scored

  Called in to curly fries
potato wedges laced in Tabasco
sauces slathered like the letters
left in stanzas of betters

  Mountains of mayhemic pasta
what it would finally cost
compiled politics diet of worms
such that no menu was lost

  Supper was served at seven
when rockets flared overheated
each role is made with the leven
from chefs that cook for the dead.

11/28/23

Telephone Wire (a poem)

 

The raven spins
and having spun
time moves on

  Laughing cackling brook
the raven spins
time moves on

  The raven flies
and having flown
time moves on

  On the wire
raven world is hungry song
time moves on

  Woman on the wire
parasol’d one spun day
time moves on.

11/25/23

Israel Through the Night (poem)

 

    Jacob was injured wrestling with God
an all night contest he couldn't win
chosen by the most Holy
an eponymous nation to begin

  The struggle is edifying
the people wayward
sin is the normal deflection
the people will slide toward

  Founding land somewhere
humans wandering through
a temporal hasteland
homesites are a hopeful clue

  Where the kingdom of God is
more than fertile land
home is where the heart is
with God not possessions of man

  Hosea showed what's wrong
he married a whore
Israel became worldly
everything an open door

    Israel became a faith with a new covenant accord
peace became bonded in the crucifixion and the Lord
wickedness and evil forever overcome
a place for faith in God not a sword

  Israel forever symbolizes all of us
a people of faith
with the Redeemer
in whom we trust.


11/24/23

Lair of the Ice Worm (a poem)

 

  

    Deadly gas
of geologic melting
sudden surge brinks
jökulhlaup floods
sci-fi ice worm blinks.

Atheists May Hate Godel's Incompleteness Theorems

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