Abandoned Footnotes
Stray thoughts, notes, and digressive ditties.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Reason and Persons in Classical Greece
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In a post I wrote three years ago, before I abandoned this blog for the first time (in accordance with its name) I mentioned a passage in P...
Monday, July 05, 2010
Footnotes on things I’ve been reading: Epstein and Axtell, “Growing Artificial Societies”
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Epstein and Axtell, Growing Artificial Societies (1996). I've become very interested in the "artificial societies" approac...
Sunday, July 04, 2010
Sunday Extremophile Blogging: Deinococcus Radiodurans
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The toughest of them all . Will sustain a radiation dose between 5 and 15 thousand times higher than the dose that would kill a human being,...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Endnotes
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Chuck Close apparently suffers from face blindness . [! - via marginal revolution ] DuPont's solution to the problem of securing explosi...
Footnotes on things I've been reading: Steven Pfaff's "Exit-Voice Dynamics and the Collapse of East Germany"
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Steven Pfaff, Exit-Voice Dynamics and the Collapse of East Germany (2006). Despite the unpromising title, this is a superb analytical nar...
Monday, June 28, 2010
What’s purple and commutes?
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Answer: An Abelian grape. From here , on the colorful lives of the mathematicians. (And yes, I'm trying to revive this blog).
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Power
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It is not often noted (an exception is Hemmenway 1994 , p. 265, note 12 [ JSTOR ]) that the Stranger’s top-most category in his divisions, t...
Friday, March 16, 2007
A Joke in Diogenes Laertius
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From Diogenes Laertius VI.40 : Plato defined man as a featherless biped [ Statesman 266e ], and was much applauded [for that]. [Diogenes h...
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Monday, March 05, 2007
Functions and purposes
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Among some commentators (e.g. Zuckert 2000 , pp. 71-72) it has sometimes been argued that the difference between the Socratic and the Eleati...
Thursday, March 01, 2007
One, two, or three?
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One of the most interesting moments in the prologue to the Sophist occurs after Socrates asks the Eleatic Stranger whether sophist, statesm...
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Images I
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The question of images is central to the interpretation of the Sophist , as I indicated earlier . Indeed much of the dialogue is concerned w...
Theodorus' judgement and the art of measure
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I mentioned earlier that we can see a tension between Socrates and Theodorus in the dialogues of the trilogy. Socrates and Theodorus, despi...
The Charge Against Socrates
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I mentioned earlier that the Sophist and the Statesman can be understood as a sort of philosophical trial of Socrates. But what is the ...
Socrates' awe and the Stranger's awe
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I earlier posted about the Stranger's αἰδώς (shame or awe) on responding to Socrates' request that he use a vaguely "Socratic...
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