Sunday, March 23, 2008

Shards

In the Tractatus Wittgenstein routed philosophy and left us shards of profoundly orthodox beauty. One only need be lightly acquainted with Pierce to see that the theory of special relativity is also a mathematical proxy for other things. (When invoking Gödel’s frame, a proxy is elementally not a suggestion of either aprioristic or aposteristic suggestions.) Ignoring this would be like ignoring an indicator-species attempting to sell his presence to us directly in our midst.

It is not out of frivolity or excess that von Wright said of Wittgenstein that he was one of Germany's great writers. It is not by accident that Wittgenstein's interest in Goethe's color theory informs a lot of the basis of color theory to this day.

The Cartesian geist was not molded for negatives. There is reason to replace Bell's terse dichotomies with orthodox theorems whatever else is thought about it. This is mnemonic. It solves all problems. One mustn't lose one's rightful kills. There is no reason to live off the dirt. We should delegate the remaining mnemonic detritus to the dust bin of man's long murderous list of teleological fantasies. The Cartesian delegates failed at and murderously perpetuated this conundrum  - literally.

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