Saturday, October 14, 2006

Immersion

A special nonsingular map from one manifold to another such that at every point in the domain of the map, the derivative is an injective linear map.
from MathWorld

Immersion

A special nonsingular map from one manifold to another such that at every point in the domain of the map, the derivative is an injective linear map.
from MathWorld

Friday, October 13, 2006

a common speech

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. ...
But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other." ...
from Genesis, The Tower of Babel

a common speech

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. ...
But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other." ...
from Genesis, The Tower of Babel

Friday, October 06, 2006

Japanese "deconstruction"

"... I promised you some schematic and preliminary reflections on the word "deconstruction". What we discussed were prolegomena to a possible translation of this word into Japanese, one which would at least try to avoid, if possible, a negative determination of its significations or connotations."
from Derrida's 'Letter to a Japanese Friend'

Japanese "deconstruction"

"... I promised you some schematic and preliminary reflections on the word "deconstruction". What we discussed were prolegomena to a possible translation of this word into Japanese, one which would at least try to avoid, if possible, a negative determination of its significations or connotations."
from Derrida's 'Letter to a Japanese Friend'

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Lilliput

"He shall not presume to come into our metropolis, without our express order; at which time, the inhabitants shall have two hours warning to keep within doors."
from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

Lilliput

"He shall not presume to come into our metropolis, without our express order; at which time, the inhabitants shall have two hours warning to keep within doors."
from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

quantum wavefunction

Wavefunction collapse injects temporal ‘becoming’ into the world.
from Craig Callender
Department of Philosophy, UCSD, USA

quantum wavefunction

Wavefunction collapse injects temporal ‘becoming’ into the world.
from Craig Callender
Department of Philosophy, UCSD, USA

Monday, September 25, 2006

synchronicity

That is, a new experience rather than two overlapping experiences would occur, because overlapping experiences cannot retain their individual phenomenal characters. When two experiences are in sync, that is, when they overlap, one sinks into the other and something new surfaces.
from Gallagher ...

synchronicity

That is, a new experience rather than two overlapping experiences would occur, because overlapping experiences cannot retain their individual phenomenal characters. When two experiences are in sync, that is, when they overlap, one sinks into the other and something new surfaces.
from Gallagher ...

if we could purify language

But language is not purified of theoretical constructs (which, of course, were meant to be bracketed by the reduction). Even if we could purify language in the right way, it would still contain nouns (e.g., 'phase', 'retention'), which, in reference to the stream of consciousness, might imply substantive parts rather than transitive parts. Reflection itself may introduce distortions into what we see in phenomenological intuition ...
by Shaun Gallagher

if we could purify language

But language is not purified of theoretical constructs (which, of course, were meant to be bracketed by the reduction). Even if we could purify language in the right way, it would still contain nouns (e.g., 'phase', 'retention'), which, in reference to the stream of consciousness, might imply substantive parts rather than transitive parts. Reflection itself may introduce distortions into what we see in phenomenological intuition ...
by Shaun Gallagher

All alterations take place in conformity with the law of the connection of cause and effect

When I perceive that something happens this representation contains the consciousness that there is something preceding. Only by reference to what preceded does the appearance acquire its time relation.
From Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

All alterations take place in conformity with the law of the connection of cause and effect

When I perceive that something happens this representation contains the consciousness that there is something preceding. Only by reference to what preceded does the appearance acquire its time relation.
From Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Thursday, September 21, 2006

hope

Before me there were no created things,
Only eterne, and I eternal last.
All hope abandon, ye who enter in!
from Dante's Inferno: Canto III

hope

Before me there were no created things,
Only eterne, and I eternal last.
All hope abandon, ye who enter in!
from Dante's Inferno: Canto III