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The Metaphysical Principles of the Infinitesimal Calculus
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Flipin 'eck! 19 replies..............I was expecting James Blast but hey! Hello everybody!
It IS a book by Rene Guenon in which he talks abouts Leibnitz' Infinitesimal Calculus the crux of which is that number has been reduced to its quantitative aspect rather than it's qualitative nature which explains why the mathematics of the ancients is so unintelligible.............I think. But hey dont worry as we all follow Von and his humanistic tendencies we can dismiss this thread altogether......................I was just bored and suffering from MLC..........and work is crap!.............. my wife has left me...........and work is crap! (btw this thread started in the sisters chat see 'serpents kiss')
It IS a book by Rene Guenon in which he talks abouts Leibnitz' Infinitesimal Calculus the crux of which is that number has been reduced to its quantitative aspect rather than it's qualitative nature which explains why the mathematics of the ancients is so unintelligible.............I think. But hey dont worry as we all follow Von and his humanistic tendencies we can dismiss this thread altogether......................I was just bored and suffering from MLC..........and work is crap!.............. my wife has left me...........and work is crap! (btw this thread started in the sisters chat see 'serpents kiss')
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It's a book by Rene Guenon - Bizarrely, someone bought this for me for my birthday.
That's not bizarre - clearly someone had to get you a present but couldn't be bothered so gave you a book that they wished they hadn't bought and probably didn't understand
That's not bizarre - clearly someone had to get you a present but couldn't be bothered so gave you a book that they wished they hadn't bought and probably didn't understand
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am I so predictable?EmeraldSignal wrote:I was expecting James Blast
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please calm down, we are a help system, y'knowEmeraldSignal wrote:OK!
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and hence the eye of horus; the golden ratio and all. god, even ferns and shells can work it outEmeraldSignal wrote:in which he talks abouts Leibnitz' Infinitesimal Calculus the crux of which is that number has been reduced to its quantitative aspect rather than it's qualitative nature which explains why the mathematics of the ancients is so unintelligible.............I think. But hey dont worry as we )
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But you didn't give me itEmeraldSignal wrote:It's a book by Rene Guenon - Bizarrely, someone bought this for me for my birthday.
That's not bizarre - clearly someone had to get you a present but couldn't be bothered so gave you a book that they wished they hadn't bought and probably didn't understand
PiB Perhaps you should try talking to the shells and ferns, they might explain to you what the book is actually about -
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perhaps, i haven't read the book, that i'll admit, but i have studied Leibnitz work as part of one of my degrees, which included advanced calculus and chaos theoryArch Deviant wrote:
PiB Perhaps you should try talking to the shells and ferns, they might explain to you what the book is actually about -
as i recall, the nautilus for example is contructed of a golden ratio which forms, by extraction, into a golden spiral...but also, it's just a very old and very pretty shell
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I see a good number of human beings in Glasgow city centre who can't.paint it black wrote:the golden ratio and all. god, even ferns and shells can work it out
Spoken as someone who would make vitruvian man weep in her utter perfection, of course...
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Excellent So as you have read Leibni(t)z you will know as a rationalist you don't need to read the book, you can just acquire the knowledge through thought and pure reasonpaint it black wrote:perhaps, i haven't read the book, that i'll admit, but i have studied Leibnitz work as part of one of my degrees, which included advanced calculus and chaos theory
as i recall, the nautilus for example is contructed of a golden ratio which forms, by extraction, into a golden spiral...but also, it's just a very old and very pretty shell
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Um. Observation is needed too is it not? About all it's possible to derive from thought and reason alone is Descartes' cogito ergo sum
Or am I putting Descartes before de horse?
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"I am thinking, therefore I exist" applies to our conscious existence. Leibniz proposes that experience is unneccesary - all can be derived from thought alone, as all is God.markfiend wrote:Um. Observation is needed too is it not? About all it's possible to derive from thought and reason alone is Descartes' cogito ergo sum
Or am I putting Descartes before de horse?
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There was one great rationalist: Spinoza. I am terribly grateful for Descartes, even though his philosophy is somewhat flawed, who, in influencing Malebranche, influenced Spinoza's Pantheism.
Just thought I'd pipe in with that... harrumph.
Just thought I'd pipe in with that... harrumph.
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Without a doubt, Descartes, Spinoza & Leibniz are great rationalists and worthy of great respect.
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Guys! guys! all of these fings we are talking about can only be grasped by the faculty in man which is higher than reason, which, has gradually become atrophied since the time of around the Renaisance...........I think. The golden ratio apparently occurs throughout nature and was used in buildings........ well so what? As we are all NOT goths here we should all understand what the profound effect something like the golden ratio should have upon us..............otherwise like me yer thick. (thickly veiled that is).............(your seven veils unfold give me forbidden places.....).......I had a better day at work today and my wife came back.
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