To listen the gift of listening, one must first listen What a way to begin the year. This morning I awakened in the dark before the alarm went off, which is always a good way to start a day. Quiet thoughts ambled through my mind for a while. At the conclusion of a chain of thoughts which have now […]
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Thinking about a rare opposite of Schadenfreude which is neither Freudefreude nor Mudita but Schadenmitgefühl
The wild headline is intentional because the audience for this article will most likely arrive here by search engines, as people are trying to find "the opposite of schadenfreude," but not the obvious opposite. Of these visitors only a few will appreciate this little word adventure here, […]
Chomsky confirms an element of a developing theory on the ontology of mathematics
As you can see by this third post of the day on the same topic, I'm rather enjoying this interview: Noam Chomsky on Jung, Wittgenstein, and Gödel (Ask Me Anything), and this time I'm not nitpicking his answers, but I find him confirming a hunch I developed as a component of a larger theory on the […]