Zen Koan Therapy
A careless monk experienced a fall,Thus dislocating his fragile soul.Reflecting on the apparent pain,He puzzled over the insight that came.For there was nothing beneath at all,upon which one may even...
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A solution to n-valued valuations (truth value assignments for many-valued...
First we define and construct the extensional valuation function , (intuitively, it can be thought of as the generating function for the classical truth table). The valuation function θ will have...
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A sequence related to the mathematical constant e.
I came across a rather surprising property of the above recurrence relation which I defined when counting the number of models determined by some filter. Those were models of conditional logics with...
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Mad Hatter Paradox.
DEFINITION: Mad as a Hatter – someone is said to be mad as a hatter iff there exists a mental illness (madness) from which they suffer, and they’re ignorant of its existence.Now, consider someone...
View ArticleThe Uncertainity Principle and the 2-nd Law of Thernodynamics
I met the New Scientist article which I read this morning with mixed feelings. This is the bitter-sweet taste of being right. I guess this is what intellectualists generally feel when they eventually...
View ArticleA fragment of an essay on wonder.
With our fangs of taxonomy muzzled with wonder, as the alluring fragrance of mystery provides no substance for their bite to seize, we are drawn toward its promising source. During that earliest stage...
View ArticleFriends
My flatmate's dog Russell, came to greet me last night when I got back from a tutorial. After trotting giddily downstairs he paused politely at the threshold, looking up at me, until I said - hello...
View ArticleGecko commotion!
Two gecko's are either fighting, playing or mating outside my window - hmm, can't tell. There's plenty of commotion and a cacophony of gecko-squeaks. Oh wait! - I can see one has got hold of the...
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Epidiosyncragyrology
Epidiosyncragyrology - the science dealing with stirring patterns resulting from human activity intended to dissolve sugar in tea or coffee, by stirring with a teaspoon. Most epidiosyncragyrologists...
View ArticleBreeding Unicorns
It is illegal to breed unicorns - illogical even, or ill founded according to some. It's safe to conclude that it is an ill activity.
View ArticleWhat is your calling?
We make shit up. That's all we ever do, at best. At worst we just repeat the shit made up by others. We need the shit others made up, mind you, in order to make up our own. This is not to be confused...
View ArticleA Sneeze
"It might be an interesting literary exercise to try to describe a sneeze. And all the feelings that precede it." - Oliver Sacks.Challenge accepted. With a latent and barely perceptible tickle of the...
View ArticleMuch Ado About Nothing
AN EXERCISE IN INTUITIONSuppose we have two physical vessels of varying size, U and u, and suppose further that they're both empty (in the usual sense - we've run out of wine). Should we consider the...
View ArticleZeno's Apology
We know that the ancient Greeks loved their wine. So must have Zeno, the Greek philosopher who among other things is known for devising numerous paradoxes intended to endorse the views of...
View ArticleThe Poet, the Chemist, and the Physicist.
The trio met one day over some wine and discussed matters of rhyme, thyme and time. Soon the conversation turned to the notion of nothingness and emptiness - what is empty? The poet finished his glass,...
View ArticleIt Goes Without Saying.
After a decade of a comfortable tenure as reader in baroque logics, Lev felt the onset of an uninspiring impasse coming on. He could sense the cold, judgemental gaze of his best work in the field of...
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A simple idea.
Physicists disagree about what exists, but they tend to agree that nothing is just the lack of that which exists. Note that this is physical nothing, or physical impossibility. Nothing "contains", as...
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Tangibility of the transcendental 2 - updated.
I'm re-posting this blog entry with a crucial correction to the λ function, which previously wasn't properly defined. I was doing a bit of reading about transcendental numbers today, and had an idea of...
View ArticleRuminations on Everything and Nothing
Common relevance - situational assumptions.The common-use ontological notions of nothing/emptiness are context dependent, with enthymematic information filling out the gaps concerning what kind of...
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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.Lucius Annaeus SenecaIt's difficult to overstate the importance of this.
View ArticleWhat are dreams, mum?
I was a very inquisitive child, or at least so I've been told, and the beginning of my ability to speak was marked with an onset of a daily torrent of interrogations, which I subjected my mother to. I...
View ArticleHow empty is { }? Different orders of the Empty Set. Coursera Forum discussion.
Here is a raw cut-and-paste of the exchange on this topic from a Coursera forum.I'd like to thank those who provided constructive criticism, or just picked at the idea with an unbiased razor of...
View ArticleOn the (nontrivial) non-uniqueness of the empty collection.
Consider a property P : "is green all over, and is not green all over".Alice and Bob are friends. Bob reasons about the world, and accordingly conditions his understanding of what is or isn't logically...
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