improver of mankind. deadlifts & Kripke semantics.
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"Won't some of the bolder characters among those who helped him to power, & now hold positions of influence, begin to speak freely to him & to each other, & blame him for what is happening?"
Even the early Platonic dialoguesâbefore the doctrine of the Forms was fully developedâtaught that mathematical truths had an abstract, independent, real existence. In the Meno, a Socrates gets an innumerate slave to ârememberâ the Pythagorean theorem. 
"âThe underlying, persisting matter must constantly change form as mechanical, physical, chemical and organic appearances, following the guiding thread of causality, all crowd around, greedy to emerge and tear the matter away from the others... 
"This number & arrangement of the bones, which Geoffroy de St. Hilaire called the anatomical element, continues, as he has thoroughly shown, in all essential points unchanged: 
The reduction of all phenomena & events to manifestations of a single cause resembled both the pre-Socratics & Schopenhauer (in his drafts, Nietzsche would try to show that the âwill-to-powerâ was prior to & more universal than S.âs âwill-to-liveâ. 
Thereâs something about the delicacy of the leaves in the bushes & trees which creates a static, frieze-like effect, & is reinforced by the break in the composition created by the stream & the way it opens up to a distant vista: thereâs a sense of tasteful proportion & balance. 
The first space covered the Introduction & Ch. 1: an overview of the whole project & then a phenomenological-anthropological investigation of the agrarian society ruled by ancestral nomos. 
In the mid-19th c, this was a controversial matter: the new physiologists like Flourens wanted to collapse morality into the intellect, so that âthe soulâ could be said to be housed entirely in the brain. 
The discovery of the site, Oxyrhynchus, & the hundreds of thousands of papyri by Grenfell & Hunt is an epic story in its own right, a lost library of documents suddenly brought back to life, more than a thousand years out of time. 
unlike many other Homeric similes, this one isnât primarily describing motion (an army as a flock of birds or swarm of bees) or an excess of emotion (a raging warrior as a lion or dismay coming over a group like a black wave bearing seaweed)⌠
In CR ep 134 âHomer Part Oneâ BAP in an offhand, joking way suggests that the Homeric epics recount events that originally took place in outer space.
I am reading this book about the German painter Gerhard Richter, written by theorycel art historian Buchloh who has nonetheless engaged with Richterâs work for a half century or more. This was published by MIT Press in 2022. 
The volume itself is very nice, with a foreword by Gorightly explaining the textual history & provenance of the manuscripts⌠these formed a conglomerate of fragments, typed on multiple typewriters & all converted to microfiche. William Grimstad gave them to Gorightly in 2015. 
May God have mercy on my soul for divulging this grotesque, maddening infohazard, but I am not strong enough to die with this secret. Please forgive me. 
âNo need, inquisitor!â
this is from _The Measure of Time_ (1898): 
