Monthly Archives: September 2011

This video at Rachel Maddow’s page highlights the stark differences in how liberals and conservatives see things. As one example she plays a tape of Elizabeth Warren’s (candidate for US Senate in MA) now infamous internet rant against the spurious … Continue reading →

Finally the people have had enough. It’s time to join the effort and make your voices heard. See the website for more info and let the top 1% know what the other 99% of us think and feel. The revolution … Continue reading →

Andrew Cohen has a new book by the above title that has kennilinguists afroth with superlative circle jerking, as it supports their worldview and notions of spirituality. The Kennilingam fawns in typical hyperbolic fervor (fever?): “Evolutionary Enlightenment is one of … Continue reading →

Here’s a good article by Paul Blumenthal on the results of the Citizens United Supreme Court Case. It is astounding that those Justices in favor of this decision could believe what they said. It’s one more example of the intentional … Continue reading →

With Obama’s jobs package calling for modest tax increases on the wealthy the conservatives are crying “class warfare.” They are right but its not as they intend. One of their main strategies in such matters is to acknowledge an actual … Continue reading →

Continuing the theme from the last two post, in the same referenced IPS thread infimatas said: “I recall an interview with Daniel Dennet where he argued that mathematics has a sort of Platonic quality.  Not in the metaphysical sense, but … Continue reading →

Continuing the theme from the last two post, in the same referenced IPS thread infimatas said: “I recall an interview with Daniel Dennet where he argued that mathematics has a sort of Platonic quality.  Not in the metaphysical sense, but … Continue reading →

Continuing from the last post, I posted the following in our ongoing IPS discussion “the observer in the observed”: Nunez’s article is a shortened version of Chapter 8 of WMCF. From the latter: “The uniqueness of the final state of … Continue reading →

The above is the title of a book by Lakoff & Nunez (Basic Books, 2000). It’s come up again in recent discussions at IPS due to mathematical notions of infinity and how this reflects in notions of the absolute. The … Continue reading →

I’ve referred to some of my neologisms in the past, like here. In some recent IPS posts I’ve come up with some more. For example this from the OOO thread when we were discussing the interactivity of subject and object: … Continue reading →