The second in a quartet, another physicosophical vignette… My theory is that Shane and I had something because of what we’d imagined for ourselves. We all have a basic idea of who we are or what we should be, and weightless though it feels, it’s enough to create a tangible relationship. Over the years our [...]
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Posted in Journal Entries, Philosophy, Science, Writing on 26/11/09 | Leave a Comment »
Rhetorical Axiomatization
Posted in Philosophy, tagged axiom, lingua universalis, Philosophy, rhetoric on 06/01/09 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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.”
