Sonnet: Now I see them by Michael Palmer
Now I see them sitting me before a mirror.
There’s noise and laughter. Somebody
mentions that hearing is silver
before we move on to Table One
with the random numbers. I look down
a long street containing numbers.
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Thursday, June 23, 2016
Thursday, September 22, 2011
The wealth of ambiguity
When we read these lines by Robert Burns (1759-1796),
Oh my luv is like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June . . .
we don't know whether he compares a woman he loves to a flower or whether it is his own emotion he describes. And the multiplicity of meanings is a good and pleasing thing. Similarly, when we read the problem,
Solve the equation, x² + 4 = 0
Oh my luv is like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June . . .
we don't know whether he compares a woman he loves to a flower or whether it is his own emotion he describes. And the multiplicity of meanings is a good and pleasing thing. Similarly, when we read the problem,
Solve the equation, x² + 4 = 0
Labels:
ambiguity,
contradiction,
logic,
Michael Palmer,
principle,
proposition
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