Hi, Carl,
Nobody has bit on my hypothetical, not even you, a man I regard as less
afraid of hypotheticals than most. Perhaps it's because I made an important
error in describing the setup.
Imagine that I am standing before you holding a flat object, such as a
notebook in my left hand,
This may throw something (light?) on the issue.
http://cheng.staff.shef.ac.uk/morality/morality.pdf
The reason I'm tossing this in may not become apparent until a ways into
it, when mathematical morality notions are used to address abstraction.
From my own perspective, I swap in
I just meant symmetry in the broad sense, for example
that something has a symmetry if it has the regular form
or a crystal structure. Crystals are very symmetrical, the
atoms of a crystal are arranged in a regular, rigid grid.
There are various crystal symmetries, just like there are
various
Jochem,
Thanks for this clarification.
So, I take it that a metaphor is an example of a symmetry [sensu frommi]
because there are some invariant properties when we move from the source of
the metaphor to the target.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of
I have read the Koran (only in English, I'm afraid), and I work with
Muslims in the Middle East. This is the best article so far written about
ISIS. It confirms everything I've been told. And for further insight, if
you don't know much about how we got to this point, read the magisterial
I'd be interested in takes on this follow-up:
What The Atlantic Left Out About ISIS According To Their Own Expert
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/02/20/3625446/atlantic-left-isis-conversation-bernard-haykel/
On 03/10/2015 04:44 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:
I have read the Koran (only in
