I’ve been thinking a lot recently about my “paper” on the linguistic impact on rhetoric, and along that train of thought I stumbled upon a question I have since been obsessed with: can rhetoric be axiomatized?
Mathematics have long since been intertwined with symbolic logic, and therefore the logician’s lingua franca, but can we somehow expand [...]
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Rhetorical Axiomatization
Posted in Philosophy, tagged axiom, lingua universalis, Philosophy, rhetoric on 06/01/09 | Leave a Comment »
Immature Poets
Posted in English, Journal Entries, Literature, Philosophy, Poetry, tagged Bob Dylan, Ecclesiastes, Poetry, Steven Winn, T.S. Eliot on 29/12/08 | Leave a Comment »
Thomas Stearns Eliot once said, “Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”
A Bit on Fry & Laurie
Posted in English, Math, Philosophy on 24/12/08 | Leave a Comment »
Now, I’ll be the first to defend Stephen Fry’s title as “genius” – and not just in his comedic stylings but in a very literary way, please refer to any of his books and the film Wilde – but I never really anticipated the two intersecting as they did on one sketch from A Bit [...]
