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Sunday, May 19, 2019

Like

5.26.19

Helena Bonham Carter

Like
Water
像水一样 
Xiàng shuǐ yīyàng
水のような
Mizu no yōna
ps67

Space is 
gracious.

Raise praise
like a wave.

Last quarter moon. 
What's your tune?



Tides are pulled with the lunar day.
Water gives the moon a greater say.

The tidal force is strongest when the moon comes between the sun and earth.
The tide extends to the fullness of height when the moon's movement gives birth.

The ebb and flow cycles twice
though it's not that precise
it is quite nice.

Watch the tides.
Two high and low shadow the day by size
They rise by twelfths in the experience of the eyes.
One, two, three then another three twelfths by the fourth hour are spied.
Two, then one. The first and the sixth times were despised
in the size of the rise. ;)

Storms, wind and fractional moon produce a change in range.
Gravitational force made the range look strange
in the way it changed.

Energy for life, be gracious to us.
Let your face shine in space for trust.

May your way be shown upon earth.
Your saving power gave nations birth.

The water was as clear as crystal in the river that flowed from the throne of light.
The crystal flow cleansed perception to develop perspective for the bold in sight.

The tree of life was tended by the Son to produce fruit of different kinds.
Twelve kinds were produced for distinctive runs of productive fun in luminescent climes.

The leaves of the tree are for the healing of nations.
Eternity is shaped for the creation of key innovations.

The dealer in purple cloth listened to our humble speech.
She invited us to stay at her home to show respect for those who teach.

Let the people raise praise for all it's worth.
Let earned equity say "We have tidal girth."

Raise praise
like a wave.

The earth has yielded increase.
The moon displayed fractional peace.
Love will not cease.

May divine grace bless us.
The ebb makes less wetness. ;)

The Father has sent the Spirit in the name of the Son
to teach you everything to shape your point of view as one.

Contract morality is an inference from the experience of the applicability
of law for credibility.

The inference to the best explanation includes plausibility.
The report includes factual verity for accountability.

Let the ends of the earth show reverence.
for love as the evidence for divine presence.

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Psalm 67
To the leader: with stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song.

1 May God be gracious to us and bless us
   and make his face to shine upon us,
          Selah
2 that your way may be known upon earth,
   your saving power among all nations.
3 Let the peoples praise you, O God;
   let all the peoples praise you.
4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy,
   for you judge the peoples with equity
   and guide the nations upon earth.
          Selah
5 Let the peoples praise you, O God;
   let all the peoples praise you.
6 The earth has yielded its increase;
   God, our God, has blessed us.
7 May God continue to bless us;
   let all the ends of the earth revere him.

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Acts 16:14-15

A certain woman named Lydia, a worshipper of God, was listening to us; she was from the city of Thyatira and a dealer in purple cloth. The Lord opened her heart to listen eagerly to what was said by Paul. When she and her household were baptized, she urged us saying, 'If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come and stay at my home.' She prevailed upon us.

Lydia- Noble one
Thyatira- daughter; one of the 7 churches in Revelations
Paul- humble

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The dealer in purple cloth listened to our humble speech.
She invited us to stay at her home to show respect for those who teach.

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Rev. 22:1-2

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city. On either side of the river is the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

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The water was as clear as crystal in the river that flowed from the throne of light.
The crystal flow cleansed perception to develop perspective for the bold in sight.
The tree of life planted by the Father is tended by the Son to produce fruit of different kinds.
Twelve kinds were produced for distinctive runs of productive fun in luminescent climes.

The leaves of the tree are for the healing of nations.
Eternity is shaped for the creation of key innovations.

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John 14:26

The Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and remind you of all that I have said to you.

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The Father has sent the Spirit in the name of the Son
to teach you everything to shape your point of view as one.

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Life Without Common Law


Gilbert Harman
b. 5.26.1938 East Orange, NJ

Gilbert Harman is an American philosopher. He taught at Princeton University. He has published widely in the philosophy of language, cognitive science, philosophy of mind, ethics, moral psychology, epistemology, statistical learning theory and metaphysics.

Gilbert Helms Harman was born in East Orange, New Jersey.

East Orange

East Orange is a city in Essex County New Jersey. Essex is located in the northeastern part of the state.

The city was named after William of Orange. He was the prince for the principality located north of Avignon in south-eastern France.

William was prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of 5 districts in the Dutch Republic from 1672 and King of England, Ireland and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702. He became the King of the United Kingdom after James II was removed.

William's Catholic uncle and father-in-law, James II, became king of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1685. James's reign was unpopular with the Protestant majority. William invaded England with the support of a group of influential British political and religious leaders in what became known as the Glorious Revolution.

He landed at the southern English port of Brixham on 5 November 1688. James II was deposed. William became the third ruler with his name in England. William III and his wife became joint sovereigns. William and Mary reigned together until Mary's death on 28 December 1694.

William III ruled as sole monarch. His reign in Britain marked the beginning of the transition from the House of Stuart to the Parliament-centered rule of the House of Hanover.

East Orange is most likely Protestant, but white people only make up about 4% of the population. It is nearly 90% black or African American. Democrat Barack Obama received 98.5% of the vote in the 2012 presidential election.

Gilbert Harman

Gilbert Harman was born on May 26, 1938 in East Orange. He is the son of William Henry and Marguerite Variel (Page) Harman.

Harman has a BA from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He was supervised by Willard Van Orman Quine. He taught at Princeton from 1963 until his retirement in 2017 as the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Philosophy.

He has been named a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society and a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

He received the Jean Nicod Prize in Paris in 2005. He received Princeton University's Behrman award for distinguished achievement in the humanities in 2009. His acceptance speech was titled "We need a linguistics department."

Some of his well-known PhD students include Graham Oppy, Stephen Stich, Joshua Greene, Joshua Knobe, David Wong, Richard Joyce, R. Jay Wallace, James Dreier and Nicholas Sturgeon.
Harman's 1965 account of the role of "inference to the best explanation" has been very influential. Inference is distinguished from causation. Causation is physical. Inference is a mental process that applies reason.

A good explanation of an event requires three conditions. The explanation has to have causation, inference and plausibility to satisfy the quality of goodness. A good explanation is not always true.

The best explanation of observable phenomena is inferred from the existence of that which we need. Inference or reasoning should be conceived as rational to "change in view".

Conservatism is balanced against coherence. Simplicity and explanatory considerations are relevant to positive coherence. Avoiding inconsistency is relevant to negative coherence.

He has expressed doubts about appeals to a priori knowledge. He has argued that logic and decision theory are for implication and consistency.

Concepts such as time, space, matter, energy, light and the like are metaphysical insofar as the ideas were drawn from experience.

Knowledge is generally defined as measurable with the formulation of an equation of variables drawn from a priori categories, but that which is known is not drawn from a mental process that preceded experience. The notion of a priori knowledge is something that warrants skepticism.

The speed of light was defined as a constant with the Michelson/ Morley experiment. This experiment broke a ray of light with a spinning mirror in order to measure the effect of the break. The speed was calculated as the ratio of distance to time with respect for the light.

This constant was used to formulate an equation that defined energy in the theory of relativity. The observation of an event is minutely effected by acceleration as an element in the conditions in which an event is observed. This special case for observation was used for consistency in general.

Albert Einstein determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers in his theory of special relativity. He showed that the speed of light within a vacuum is the same no matter the speed at which an observer travels. This established the constancy of light for sight as an element in observation.

He found that space and time were interwoven into a single continuum known as space-time as a result. An event that occurs at the same time for one observer could occur at a different time for another. He was establishing the basis for objectivity in scientific observation.

Relativity was defined with respect for the special concern for the behavior of even sub-atomic particulates and the general interest in astronomical phenomena. The scientific observer seeks to understand reality as it is, but this is done with respect for the significance of how to use the knowledge for the benefit of human kind.

This presents a frame for the consideration of the production of electrical energy. Is solar energy better because it is safer, less costly and easier to manage than the nuclear form? If so, how is the production to be managed for the benefit of people in the market?

Will the state allow free market competition? Will the national government work to prevent competition for one of the major lobbies for political office? How is a transition from nuclear energy to be managed?

The method of inference to the best explanation says that you should infer the hypothesis that best explains an event. Abductive reason uses eliminative induction or theoretical inference to arrive at that which is best.

Harman argued that intuitions about knowledge are useful in thinking about inference in Thought and Change in View. He and Brett Sherman have suggested that knowledge can rest on assumptions that are not themselves known. He and Sanjeev Kulkarni have suggested that elementary statistical learning theory offers a kind of response to the philosophical problem of induction.

Harman has also argued that perceptual experience has "intentional content." It is important not to confuse qualities of the intentional object of experience with qualities of the experience.

Perceivers are only aware of qualities that are presented to them in experience. These presented qualities are distinct from properties of experience that represent what we experience as a kind of mental paint.

He has also proposed that perceptual and other psychological states are self-reflective. The content of perceptual experience might be the result of direct perception as opposed to one that is formed by description with language. The content of an intention might be to lead me to go home by six o'clock.

Harman relied on inference to the best explanation The Nature of Morality. He argued that there are no objective moral facts. We do not need such facts to explain our judgments about morality.

Moral relativism allows the individual to participate in contract morality. Choice is a key element in relativism.

Harman has rejected attempts to base moral theory on conceptions of human flourishing and character traits. He has expressed skepticism about the need for a good person to be susceptible to moral guilt or shame. Shame can be self-defeating. Guilt can be applied objectively to avoid the repetition of risky behavior that may result in damage to self or others.

Harman proposed contract morality, contractarianism, as the unifying motive force for moral relativism.

Contractarianism

Hobbes had looked at the English Civil War in terms of the conceptual implications. Conflict is a social manifestation of disagreement regarding rights. Each was engaged in the struggle against each. Why did he define social relations in terms of conflict?

He was arguing against the state of nature as life without organized government for law. He was also attempting to draw a lesson from the civil war. Defense from attack became the elementary motivation for agreement with the the social contract for the state.

The social contract admit that the sovereign was the unity for the realm. This unity represented the manifestation of the absolute with respect for agreement with that which is right about common law.

The elementary motivation for unity implies agreement to refrain from criminal action. Criminal action was defined by the law of Moses in a manner that was not only more monotheistic, but it was less aggressive in the enforcement of punishment than the code of Hammurabi.

Punishment entertained torture and the death penalty but the punishments weren't unique to Judaism. They were standard for the time. It is plausible that they weren't enforced as aggressively in the Judaic community.

The ten commandments weren't explicitly anti-magical. The code of Hammurabi had defined necromancy and witchcraft as crimes. While magic was included in the bible as an undesirable act that could be severely punished, the references were anecdotal. The stories were included as the documentation of standards of social conventions for the Middle East. 

Hobbes didn't actually propose constitutional monarchy as explicitly as Spinoza had, but the implication was inherent to the social contract. Monarchy was organized elementally for defense from attack. Legislative authority was charged with the task of reforming the legal code with special attention to the elimination of cruelty in punishment in written law.

The global competition for colonial expansion made the reform an exercise in liberal expenditure for the establishment of legislative legacy. The more liberal members of the House of Commons acted as the aggressor in both the deportation of dissent and the taxation of citizens to the diminishment of economic power in civil rights.

The reform of legislation was the greatest need for constitutional monarchy or republic, but it was also exploited at the greatest cost to the taxpayers for the maximum benefit of aggression for state officials. Classical reconstruction had actually placed the House of Commons over that of the Lords in parliament.

It was as though the plebians were put over the patricians in the Roman Senate. The investment in the study of history as a basis for the consideration of reconstruction was inhibited by the change. The liberal use of the 'sword of Damocles' was also a deterrent to reasonable measure regarding public policy. When fake news is peddled to deceive the public on a regular basis, accountability for legislative decision making is reduced.

This degeneration in reform was assisted by Locke's claim to the supreme authority of the legislature. Locke had essentially overridden the conservatism recommended by Hobbes for the liberal benefit afforded to those who agreed with him in his liberal reform. This factionalized representation.

The English bill of rights was written with the strong indication that Puritans were the English Protestants and Presbyterians were the Scottish alliance.  It was the male members of these groups who had the civil rights.

Locke had listed the people as the greater supreme authority over the legislature, but he invited the people to overthrow the government wih the force of arms rather than to build political consensus with the use of rights. He was deceptive in his argument.

The alliance that William III had with his part of the Dutch Republic suggested a supply of arms that would work for the benefit of the parliamentarian monarchy. The House ruled in favor of Locke's gambit. The risk for his claim wasn't limited to the English speaking world.

Revolution would be used to establish republican government in France and the colonial world. Parliamentarian monarchy or republic was already designated as a part of the future for Europe, the colonies.

Contract morality addresses the voluntary cooperation of people with the common law. Socialism has been used to grant state officials an excess of favor in the competition to obtain advantage in the struggle to build prosperity for an open and just society.

The inference of the best explanation carried the value of reducing deceit in description. When an event is described in terms of causation, inference and plausibility it allows for factual explanation for the institution of public policy that is accountable to the public that pays for government with tax money.

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Gilbert Harman
S. 吉尔伯特哈曼
T. 吉爾伯特哈曼

吉 Ji         lucky                 吉  kichi    joy                        Gi    ぎ    ギ         Gil     길  way     
尔 er        you                    爾  ore      you                         ru    る     ル        beo     버  bur   
伯  bo      senior                伯  haku   official                    ba    ば-  バ-        teu      트  the             
特  te       special               特  toku    special                    to    と      ト       Ha       하  ha             
哈  Ha      ha                     哈  go       school of fish          Ha    は-   ハ-      meon  먼   distant
曼  man   handsome          曼  ban     wide                       man まん マン               

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Contract morality is an inference from the experience of the applicability
of law for credibility.
The inference to the best explanation includes plausibility.
The report includes factual verity for accountability.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Harman
https://philpapers.org/rec/HARMRE
https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Harman
https://reasonandmeaning.com/2015/04/11/gilbert-harmans-contractarianism/ http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/rjohns/ibe.pdf
http://www.informationphilosopher.com/knowledge/best_explanation.html

Sunday, March 24, 2019

Feel

3.31.19

Reese and Ava Witherspoon

Feel
Gratitude
感恩
Gǎn'ēn
感謝の気持ち
Kanshanokimochi
ps32

Those whose transgression is forgiven
are happy with the gift that has been given.

Those whose sin has been put away
are glad to have another chance to play.

Those to whom no guilt has been imputed
feel their spirit has not been executed.

My bones withered when I held my tongue.
I felt as though I did not know what it was to be young.

Aches turned to moans inside the bones of the bound judge. 
The marrow melded with so much fat it felt like sludge.

My aches entombed groans as though immured.
The heavy burden felt as though it could not be cured.

The pain became ingrained.
It threatened to drive me insane.

I felt depressed from being oppressed.
Sadness became a constant guest.

The weight of judgment weighed heavily upon me.
My head ached so hard I could barely see.

My moisture dried up as in heat.
Dehydration took a seat from head to feet.

The wetness simmered  like it was summer.
My heart pounded beats like an unskilled drummer.

Then I acknowledged my error.
Like the soul of Nineveh, I had become a bearer
of terror.

When I admit my guilt,
it felt like the only thing I had built.

I did not conceal my sin from you.
I admit to that which was not true.

I said, "I confess. I was wrong."
I had made myself a victim for much too long.

"God, I acknowledge my transgression."
My soul was freed from that which had taken possession.

You are my preservation from trouble.
The wealth of happiness will only double. 

You are my deliverance; my hiding place.
My faith in love will find no disgrace.

You surround me with shouts for relief.
Guilt doesn't haunt remorse with grief.

“Be reconciled to God in behalf of Christ
Become an ambassador for liberation from vice.

“I have rolled away the disgrace of enslavement.
From now on you will receive haven as an agent. 

"I will instruct you. You will learn.
You will be rewarded for what you earn.

"I will guide you by design.
Much is said by the circle and the line.

"Do not act as though you have no understanding.
Creation works. It is always handy.

"Use knowledge with instinct.
Avoid being driven to the brink."

To bind the mind to reasonable reason
liberates the soul from classical treason.

Slavery had been defended by Aristotle
though a slave-less society had already been modeled.

He had the law of the excluded middle.
The effect on knowledge is not as large a riddle.

He had the sun revolve around the earth
when axial rotational orbit gave light its birth.

His dialectical method paved a way around conflict.
The reconciliation didn’t always convict the script
but more than one dichotomy
led to conceptual lobotomy. 

The faithful will feel the joy of liberation
that hails the re-birth of greatness for our nation.

Prayers will be made in the time of trouble.
Deliverance will be granted. Gain may more than double.

Innocent are those to whom guilt is not imparted.
They are as happy as when they started.

This spirit does not covet guile.
It does not live to hate or revile.

Grateful are those who are forgiven.
Goodness will become the goal for which life is driven.

Fault will be put away.
Love will see the light of day. 

I no longer feel the weight of that burden.
Freedom felt free. That feeling was certain.

I feel forgiven for that which was wrong.
Liberation has become my favorite song.

Now I walk with faith in times of trouble.
I don't hide myself in my ego's bubble.

I unite with those who are right, 
but disagree with causing strife by blight. 

Great waters do not reach the faithful in a flood.
My marrow no longer feels like sludge.

Tribulations are for those who are not forgiven.
Sing a song. Grace is no longer hidden.

Mercy embraces those with trust.
It will not fade. It will not rust.

We have to celebrate and rejoice.
One of us was dead. Now, he has found his voice.

Rejoice you who are grateful.
Happiness loses that which is hateful.

Sing with joy, all you who are true of heart.
It will bless you with another start.

Justice without cruelty or violence
is in the wind like the sound of violins.

Fairness will be embraced by society.
It will be celebrated with sincere sobriety.

The path to progress is built with organization.
The economy grows providence for normalization.

Grateful are those who are forgiven.
Goodness will become the goal for which life is driven.

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32 Beati quorum

1 Happy are they whose transgressions are forgiven,
and whose sin is put away!
2 Happy are they to whom the Lord imputes no guilt,
and in whose spirit there is no guile!
3 While I held my tongue, my bones withered away,
because of my groaning all day long.
4 For your hand was heavy upon me day and night;
my moisture was dried up as in the heat of summer.
5 Then I acknowledged my sin to you,
and did not conceal my guilt.
6 I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the Lord."
Then you forgave me the guilt of my sin.
7 Therefore all the faithful will make their prayers to you in
time of trouble;
when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach them.
8 You are my hiding-place;
you preserve me from trouble;
you surround me with shouts of deliverance.
9 "I will instruct you and teach you in the way that you
should go;
I will guide you with my eye.
10 Do not be like horse or mule, which have no understanding;
who must be fitted with bit and bridle,
or else they will not stay near you."
11 Great are the tribulations of the wicked;
but mercy embraces those who trust in the Lord.
12 Be glad, you righteous, and rejoice in the Lord;
shout for joy, all who are true of heart.

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Joshua- God saves
Egypt- black country
Gilgal- rolled away or circle of stones
Jericho- place of the moon

Joshua 5:9-10
The LORD said to Joshua, 'Today I have rolled away from you the disgrace of Egypt.' That place is called Gilgal to this day. While the Israelites were encamped at Gilgal they kept the Passover in the evening on the fourteenth day of the month in the plains of Jericho.

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I have rolled away the disgrace of enslavement.
From now on you will receive haven as an agent.

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2 Corinth. 5:20
We are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us. We entreat you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

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Be reconciled to God in behalf of Christ
Become an ambassador for liberation from vice.

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Luke 15:32
The father said to his oldest son, "We had to celebrate and rejoice. This brother of yours was dead and has come to life. He was lost and has been found."

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We have to celebrate and rejoice.
One of us was dead. Now, he has found his voice.

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Rene Descartes
31 March 1596, Descartes, France
11 February 1650, Stockholm, Sweden

The word rational is derived from ratio. It means to compare. It includes the comparison of numbers. Fractions are basically numeric comparisons that serve to measure portions.

Rene Descartes is regarded as a key figure in rationalism. Rationalism was a system of thought that sought to promote the adoption of individual responsibility in reason.

Descartes rejected the scholastic thought that referred to authorities as the source for forming judgments. Classical thought referred to classical authors. Plato and Aristotle were treated as the primary leaders in this kind of thought. Christian scholasticism referred to the bible as well. Rene attempted to reduce reason to that which he could argue with certainty.

Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician and scientist. He has been dubbed the father of modern western philosophy. Subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writing. He spent about 20 years of his life in the Dutch Republic.

The Low Countries correspond roughly to the present-day Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. They consisted of a number of duchies, counties and Prince-bishoprics until the 16th century. Almost all of this territory was under the supremacy of the Holy Roman Empire. The country of Flanders was the exception. It was under the Kingdom of France.

Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy expresses skepticism for scholasticism. Scholasticism uses dialectic and cross referencing to establish a hypothesis. The system is too internal however in organization. Thoughts are compared with others for testability, but it lacks a method for testing with measurement.

Thought builds agreement in relation to hypothesis, but when a statement is taken as true without respect for alignment with reality, it creates dissonance. Reification of the cause of distortion pairs belief in truth with the misconception of perception from sensation.

Agreement makes the dissonance social as well as personal. Descartes rejected argument based on the authority of the sources. Even an assembly of sources doesn’t necessarily produce a statement that can be tested to rule out false associations. His style of writing used personal expression as a means for ruling out error. His mathematics was aimed at refining a test with measurement prior to trial.

Descartes's influence in mathematics established a measure with a field for perception for the comparison of variables as a function or a shape. The Cartesian coordinate system allows for reference to a point in space as a set of numbers. Algebraic equations are expressed as geometric shapes in two-dimension or more coordinate system.

The system was named after him. He was named the father of analytical geometry. The bridge between algebra and geometry was used in the discovery of infinitesimal calculus and analysis. Descartes was a key figures in the scientific revolution.

Descartes asserted that he will write on this philosophy "as if no one had written on these matters before" in the opening section of the Passions of the Soul. This was a treatise on the early modern version of what are now commonly called emotions. Feelings were contrasted with thought. They were defined as motivational. Thoughts were reflective. Motivations move the soul. Reflections inhibit movement. Emotions stimulate motion.

He was suspicious of his own senses. His best known philosophical statement is "Cogito ergo sum." The Latin expression “Thought thus exists” was contrasted with the French: “Je pense, donc je suis.”

This translates to English as “I think, therefore I am.” The statements can be, found in part IV of Discourse on the Method (1637; written in French but with inclusion of "Cogito ergo sum") and §7 of part I of Principles of Philosophy (1644; written in Latin).

The traditional Scholastic-Aristotelian philosophy was prevalent in his time. His break with academic tradition promoted the development of the new, mechanistic sciences. His fundamental break with Scholastic philosophy was twofold.

First, Descartes thought that the Scholastic method was prone to doubt given their reliance on consensus in agreement as the source for knowledge. Second, he wanted to replace their final causal model of scientific explanation with the more modern, mechanistic model.

Descartes attempted to address the former issue via his method of doubt. His basic strategy was to consider belief that falls prey to doubt false. This “hyperbolic doubt” then serves to clear the way for what he considers to be an unprejudiced search for the truth. This clearing of previously held beliefs puts him at an epistemological ground-zero. He sets out to find something that lies beyond  doubt from here.

He eventually discovers that “I exist” is impossible to doubt and is certain. He proceeds to demonstrate the existence of divinity from this point. Divine truth does not deceive. This serves to fix the certainty of that which is clearly and distinctly understood. It provides the epistemological foundation that he set out to find.

Descartes proceeds to rebuild his system of beliefs on this foundation once this conclusion is reached. These beliefs are re-established with certainty They include the existence of a world of bodies external to the mind. The dualistic distinction of the immaterial mind from the body is the platform for his mechanistic model of physics based on the clear and distinct ideas of geometry.

This points toward his second major break with the Scholastic Aristotelian tradition. He intended to replace final cause explanations with mechanistic principles. He applied this mechanistic framework to the operation of plant, animal and human bodies. Operations work with sensation and the passions. This understanding of motivations culminates in a moral system based on the notion of “generosity.”

He was a creative mathematician, an important scientific thinker and an original metaphysician during the course of his life. He developed the techniques that made algebraic or “analytic” geometry in math. He can be credited with several specific achievements for science.

He was co-framer of the sine law of refraction. He developed an important empirical account of the rainbow. He proposed a naturalist account of the formation of the earth and planets. It was a precursor to the nebular hypothesis.

More importantly, he offered a new vision of the natural world. The vision continues to shape our thought today. It is a world of matter that possesses a few fundamental properties that interacts according to a few universal laws. This natural world included an immaterial mind that was directly related to the brain.

He formulated the modern version of the mind–body problem in this way. He provided arguments for the existence of God in metaphysics. He sought to show that the essence of matter is extension. The essence of mind is thought. He claimed to possess a method of doubt. This method was variously exhibited in mathematics, natural philosophy and metaphysics.

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Rene Descartes
勒内·笛卡尔
勒內·笛卡爾

勒 Lei  to bind     勒 roku    halter and bit    Ri る  ル      Leu  르 le           
内 nei  inner        內 no kanji                        ne ね  ネ      ne   네 yeah             
笛 Di   whistle    笛 teki     flute                   De で  デ      De  데 place
卡 ka   card         卡 ka      card                     ka  か  カ      ka  카 car         
尔 er   you           爾 ore     you                     ru  る  ル      leu  르 le     
                                                                      to  と ト        teu  트 the
                 
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To bind the mind to reasonable reason
liberates the soul from classical treason.

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Sexism Overstated
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The statement that there is a "special place in hell" for women who don't help other women doesn't only threaten women. There is a special degree of relativity when the statement comes from a leading advocate for the war on terror in the US. 

There have been two components to the definition for who the terrorist is in the media expression. There was the thread that identified 'expatriated' white males as terrorists. There was also the thread that said that Muslims were terrorists because the sexism of their society harbors them.

That which is false about the implications for either 'profile' effected covert operational applications of 'investigation' and 'prosecution' as related to both the Patriot Act and the NDAA.

The more recent application of special investigations by Congress has targeted the executive branch. It was taken from a long standing tradition that extends back to the House of Commons in England.
James Wilson of Pennsylvania, a future Supreme Court Justice and Convention delegate, wrote an essay in 1774. He called the investigators the "grand inquisitors" who made the "proudest monarchs" tremble at their censures.

The effort to effect the outcome of the vote regarding their investigation has jaded the objectivity of their 'prosecution.'

The "special place in hell" hasn't been reserved for women. It was used to threaten Richard Nixon into resignation from his office. It has been used by Mueller in the investigation of Donald Trump and his associates. It wasn't used in the investigation of the 'terrorist attack' on 9/11/01.

The whole notion of the special investigation unit is based on an inference of the Constitutional authority to legislate. The difficulty is that Congress and covert operations throw out objective investigation in order to obtain the objective of subordinating the authority of the executive office to that of the liberal element in Congress.

The appointment of the special investigator is so closely tied to association with the special prosecutor that the investigator is prosecuting his case during the investigation. The appointment is so lacking in a system of checks and balances that it doesn't warrant the claim to constitutional authority.

The appointment has been used to dismiss executive opposition to the use of legislative authority to precipitate profit from military action. Nixon was prosecuted for impeachment because he was pulling troops out of Vietnam.

The claim that Nixon had authorized the burglary into Democrat HQ was used as a pretense to have him punished for responding to national protests against the war. The date of the 'burglary' was dated to 1972.

Johnson had elevated troop presence in Vietnam after the Kennedy assassination. Nixon started to reduce troops in 1969, his first year in office. He announced the intent to end the war in Paris in 1973.

He was pressured to resign in the same year. It's not a logical fallacy to assert that the special prosecutor and the Washington Post worked together to control public perception regarding the outcome of the 'investigation.' The burglary claim was just a way to tag the person in the presidential office with the name 'crook.'

The special prosecutor's investigation is so laden with pre-determined liberal intent that it doesn't qualify for the standards of due process in law required by the US Constitution. It is an affront to the dignity and authority of the executive office.

Thursday, August 17, 2017

Like


Amy Adams
as Louise Banks in "Arrival"
Based on "Story of Your Life"


Be
Like
Water
水のような
Mizu no yōna
ps67

Space is 
gracious.

Raise praise
like a wave.

New moon. 
What's your tune?

Tides are pulled with the lunar day.
Water gives the moon a greater say.

The ebb and flow cycles twice
though it's not that precise
it is quite nice.

Watch the tides.
Two high and low shadow the day by size
They rise by twelfths in the experience of the eyes.
One, two, three and three twelfths by the fourth hour are spied.
Two, then one. The first and the sixth times were despised
in the size of the rise. ;)

Storms, wind and fractional moon produce a change in range.
Gravitational force makes the range look strange.
It changed.

Energy for life, be gracious to us.
Let your face shine in space for trust.

May your way be shown upon earth.
Your saving power gave nations birth.

Let the people raise praise for all it's worth.
Let equity say "We have tidal girth."

The earth has yielded increase.
The moon reflected a fractional decrease.
Love will not cease.

Raise praise
like a wave.

May divine grace bless us.
The ebb makes less wetness. ;)

Let the ends of the earth show reverence.
for love as the evidence for divine presence.



Psalm 67

To the leader: with stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song.
1 May God be gracious to us and bless us
   and make his face to shine upon us,
          Selah
2 that your way may be known upon earth,
   your saving power among all nations.
3 Let the peoples praise you, O God;
   let all the peoples praise you.
4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy,
   for you judge the peoples with equity
   and guide the nations upon earth.
          Selah
5 Let the peoples praise you, O God;
   let all the peoples praise you.
6 The earth has yielded its increase;
   God, our God, has blessed us.
7 May God continue to bless us;
   let all the ends of the earth revere him.