May 2013
“What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we...”
– T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party
“He sank more and more into apathy; little interested him apart from dolls and...”
– The most heartbreaking part from Julian Young’s biography of Friedrich Nietzsche
Hugging the Horse: The Berry paradox →
stickyembraces:
“It was in the air,”Douglas Hofstadter has written, “that truly peculiar things could happen when modern cousins of various ancient paradoxes cropped up inside the rigorously logical world of numbers,… a pristine paradise in which no one had dreamt paradox might arise.” One was Berry’s paradox,…
“Is there not a surprising parallel between this notion of memes and the...”
– Slavoj Zizek
“The more narrowly we examine actual language, the sharper
becomes the conflict...”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations, §107
