hanBLOGlaka: March 2013

Sunday, March 31, 2013

54. *2.more on Immediate Consequences Of The Primative Propositions

Harold R. (Hal) Foster’s Prince Valiant

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I’ve been having an awful urge to break-up with this blog. I have a strong desire to be with it, but it seems to have become so demanding and laborious to post that I am feeling… inadequate. I have been thinking about that a lot and all analysis tells me that I am bored and lazy with this and upcoming posts, but I see them as key, and I just can’t let myself skip this material over.

Clearly the early parts outlining mathematical logic are essentially expansions of basic metaphysics we have already absorbed as parts of logical philosophy. Our authors are expanding the equational expressions of the bare bones previous treatment. My personal problem here is not one of understanding the material, but simply taking it into my tired old brain. Having spent fifty years avoiding any meaningful entanglement with ‘higher’ mathematics I feel like I’ve painted myself into a corner. This subject has definitely dropped out of my paramount interest, but I still love the material and I cannot give this blog up just yet. I’m not content with two posts a month, but that may be all I can handle for awhile.

I’m reminded of a quote from William James I posted somewhere above but will use again here:

“My dying words to you are “Say good-bye to mathematical logic if you wish to preserve your relations with concrete realities!”

Truly yours,

Wm. James

October 4, 1908

I am studying mathematics to come in closer touch with ambiguity. Is there anyone with me on this aspect? I see this is the most rational stairway that western thinkers can use in approaching the North American shaman mind.

Harold R. (Hal) Foster’s Prince Valiant

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Thursday, March 14, 2013

53. *2. Immediate Consequences Of The Primative Propositions

Harold R. (Hal) Foster’s Prince Valiant

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I don’t like to go so long between posts here, but my progress has been slowed for a number of reasons. I must confess chief among them is the diminished interest in the topic I feel at present. I am not mathematical by nature, and have spent forty years in ducking learning about it as much possible. However my work here has sparked an interest in learning more; and although my desire has not yet caught fire I feel it is only a matter of time before I reach more clarity with this. In addition the equations involved introduce typographical issues which are laborious to transcribe and require very much more effort to proofread. Also I cannot post as text because this blog won’t support it. So I have to print and scan each post, and then if I spot an error after publishing it is an ordeal to correct it.

Why bother? I just adore the complexity of Whitehead and Russell’s work. Just look at the post below: 1350+ words comprise less than half of the summary of this part describing the immediate consequences of the primitive propositions! I think it is also wise to point out here that M. Jean Nicod published a paper demonstrating that our primitive propositions _*1-_*6 can be replaced with one single primitive proposition. I hasten to add that M. Nicod did so with the benefit of having studied our authors work, and for this reason I feel it is imperative to have at our text as written, for my purpose is to assimilate the work at hand before departing from it.

Harold R. (Hal) Foster’s Prince Valiant