Today is green.
Visually appalling, yet very interesting.
So what of it?
What of the colour green?
I dunno. I don't really study colors or their supposed meaning.
I do how ever find thought and language intriguing, and I know that not all languages have words for all colours.
Japan has blended blue and green into one.
There is a native american language that only has three words for various colours.
I like the british spelling of colour more than the american spelling.
I also like the british spelling of 'herb' better than the american 'erb'.... oh wait, they're spelled the same way aren't they?
Well they should be spelled differently.
Scientists are doing experiments that show that babies are able to have more abstract thought than we give them credit for.
Brings up Chomsky's idea that the capacity for the rudiments of language are inborn.
Combine that with language dictating how an individual thinks, and, well I think there is a more complete picture, but it's getting closer.
What is it with abstraction? Math is abstract, even in simple forms there is a bit of abstraction, though you can show how 2 plus 2 works with apples or grapes.
It's no theoretical physics, but the numbers them selves are abstract.
Having two oranges, is different than having the number 2.
Falling into the same trap the philosophers of old fell into.
Got to be careful of that.
Knowing that numbers are abstract, couldn't there be a way to show the complexities of caculus using using circles and squares instead?
Perhaps.
That would be an interesting math system.
Math isn't present, just the things math represent. Math itself is a way to explain these things.
When something unexpected comes up that current Math doesn't cover, the need to invent a new math system or to add on to the current one arises.
This has happened time and again through history.
Most of us, me included, don't think about the changes in mathmatics, because we don't have to.
We don't think it affects us.
But things like Boolean algebra (after Boole, the same guy who gave us boolean logic) greatly improved our ability to communicate.
Alfred Turing.
W.V. Quine.
Bertrand Russell
Renee Descartes.
Pythagoras
Of course all these guys are philosophers too.
Hell one was a religious cult leader.
One was gay.
One was French.
They were all in love dying
They were drinking from a fountain
That was pouring like an avalanche
coming down the mountain
See if you can figure them all out... or not.
posted by F.G. Shaw @ 7:07 PM
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