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...ary historian outlines the history of paradox on periods, in a few countries (ancient India, ancient China and Japan) and analyses the paradox in sci... ...marandache himself finds out - in his play Antique Tragedy - paradoxes in the Greek philosophy, without fear or other resentments. The debate among t... ... parallel with the real world, will not meet a fashion, but a model. Two mathematicians poets: ION BARBU AND FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE According... ... scientific vocabulary (G.Calinescu, 15 Istoria...). On the other hand the mathematicians foray in the literary critique assured us that Barbu’s ... ...anguage of some commentaries etc 4) . An obvious distinction between the two mathematicians poets refers to a certain accessibility or their method... ...highest or the oddest fields of the existence” and he “would believe like the ancient Midas that anything could enter the area of the paradox” 4) . T... ...le dramatic jewel is Antique Tragedy, in what the three sacred monsters of the Greek theatre, Eschyl, Eurypide and Sofocle are brought in the same pe... ...deation and language. The author proves an excellent knowledge of the antique Greek theatre and reality and of the socratian heuristic method and, m... ...amare Ghita”etc. In other place an interjectional dialogue reminding of a pre-ancient times of the human language, is presented as an “onomatopoeic ...

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...e of MVJ: 3.1. Neutrosophy: <philosophy> (From Latin "neuter" - neutral, Greek "sophia" - skill/wisdom) A branch of philosophy, introduced by Flore... ...y A) Etymology: Neutro-sophy [French neutre < Latin neuter, neutral, and Greek sophia, skill/wisdom] means knowledge of neutral thought. B) Defini... ... different. 44 His irony against politicians: "the politicians of the ancient world were always talking about morals and virtue, ours speak on n... ...mathematics. Clean the awful data to see the beauty of the theorems. Non-mathematicians crinkle into the problems. In the philosophy of arts a... ...acred Hindu text "Bhagavad-Gita", found in the "Mah ābhārata", one of the ancient Sanskrit epics, Lord Krishna lays the complete knowledge of life to... ..., the bad and idealization, as spirit necessity, are exaggerations. (...) Greeks' <measure> was excessive as the hybrid which broke it. Their serenit... ...stem (LP) has the values: ‘true’, ‘false’, and ‘both true and false’. The ancient Indian metaphysics considered four possible values of a statement: ... ...inetieth Session of the Nat. Seminar of Informatics of the Union of Bulg. Mathematicians and Fourth Scientific Session of the ''Mathematical Foundati...

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... of exclusionary conscience far predates these horrendous events. In the Bible, the ancient Hebrews are instructed to exterminate all Amalekites, m... ...Britain and Reagan in the USA. It would also cast some fundamental - and way more ancient - tenets of free-marketry in grave doubt. Markets are p... ...taphors. Metaphors are not confined to the philosophy of neurology. Architects and mathematicians, for instance, have lately come up with the struc... ...like the Batak). The Wikipedia numbers among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fo... ...ber's "Homo Economicus" yielded to communism's supercilious version of the ancient Greeks' "Zoon Politikon". John of Salisbury might as well have b... ...uthanasia are, indeed, motivated by (some say: misplaced) mercy. Not so others. In Greek, "eu" means both "well" and "easy" and "Thanatos" is death... ...euthanasia are, indeed, motivated by (some say: misplaced) mercy. Not so others. In Greek, "eu" means both "well" and "easy" and "Thanatos" is deat... ...ion of an artwork (e.g., a musical piece) in terms of this type of intuition. Many mathematicians and physicists (following a kind of Pythagorean t...

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... time (the I and its roots). 21 4) – The I and history, both modern and ancient. The I and science, the I and philosophy, the I and religion, the... ...irst concept. Ens a se. This is a Latin phrase that translates Aristotle’s Greek ideas. “Ens a se” means that it is a being that is derived from its... ...om and courage he creates new ways of acting, ways that surprised both the ancient world and the one that came afterwards. But Ulysses does even more... ...esis of the opposites within him and that set him apart from all the other Greek heroes? How much pain did he have to go through so he could transfo... ...beauty is and a need for it. Nuclear physicists, for example, as well as mathematicians and cosmologists, never accept a new theory unless they ar... ...mbrane, manages to find a way to penetrate the egg and fertilize it. The Greek army was also decimated during their long war against the Trojans, a... ...did, the stars found in the Big Dipper. Those who learned to navigate in ancient times looked at the sky for a long time while they were still on ...

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...nce upon subsequent thought. They lay down a prin- ciple which governs all Greek thought about human life, viz. that it is only intelligible when view... ...intelligible when viewed as directed towards some end or good. This is the Greek way of expressing that all human life involves an ideal element—somet... ...t is not yet and which under certain conditions it is to be. In that sense Greek Moral Philosophy is essentially idealistic. Further it is always assu... ...ption of the argument. The subject-matter of them was a favourite topic of ancient writers, and the treatment is smoother and more orderly than elsewh... ...our account is a good one, at least according to this opinion, which is of ancient date, and accepted by those who profess philosophy. Rightly too are... ...nate, for the proportionate is a mean and the Just is proportion- ate. Now mathematicians call this kind of proportion geo- metrical: for in geometric... ...what I have said is the fact, that the young come to be geometricians, and mathematicians, and Scientific in such matters, but it is not thought that ...

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...mself into it with enthusiasm, and Latin antiquity was not enough for him. Greek, a study discountenanced by the Church, which looked on it as dangero... ...riendship of Pierre Amy and of the celebrated Guillaume Bude. In fact, the Greek letters of the latter are the best source of information concerning t... ...cy furnished by literature as well as by the popular taste. Was it not the Ancients that began it? Aristophanes, Catullus, Petronius, Martial, flew in... ... from his ancestor Esormon, Prince of Achaia, 2139 B.C., who was surnamed (Greek), that is to say the Fortunate and the Well-beloved. A Gascon could n... ...ent that Rabelais only collected popular tra- ditions and gave new life to ancient legends is said to be proved by the large number of megalithic monu... ...larity of his novel. No one has ever yet produced a written passage or any ancient testimony to prove the existence of the name before Rabelais. To pl... ...im who is the wisest of the troop. In approbation also of this fashion the mathematicians allow the very same horo- scope to princes and to sots. Wher... ...gers, fortune-tellers, alchemists, rhymers, poets, painters, projec- tors, mathematicians, watchmakers, sing-songs, musicianers, and the devil and all...

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...one of the writings of Plato have been more copiously illus trated, both in ancient and modern times, and in none of them have the interpreters been ... ...o favour this opin ion. In answer , it might be sufficient to say , that no ancient writing of equal length and excellence is known to be spurious. N... ...riti cisms, we must remember the place held by Parmenides in the history of Greek philosophy . He is the founder of idealism, and also of dialectic, ... ...r short of the infinite subtlety of language and thought. But the realism of ancient philosophy will not admit of this answer, which is repelled by Pa... ...though unconscious truth (shall we say?) or error , which underlay the early Greek philosophy . ‘Ideas must have a real existence;’ they are not mere... ... or opinions, which may be changed arbitrarily by individuals. But the early Greek philosopher never clearly saw that true ideas were only uni versal... ... of a mathematical process; the inven 41 Parmenides tor of it delights, as mathematicians do, in elicit ing or discovering an unexpected result. It...

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... thyself be heralded by the pangs of martyrdom? Sainted love, if, like the ancient children of the Hebrews, like Meshech and Abednego, thou wert calle... ...h seems too perfect and unalloyed—[a spirit of restless distrust, which in ancient times often led men to throw valuable gems into the sea, in the hop... ...in, accom- panied by Hannah, to the police court and to the prison—a vast, ancient, in parts ruinous, and most gloomy pile of build- ing. In those day... ...of the T en Thousand. Xenophon affirms that there were ‘many’ women in the Greek army—pollai aesun etairai en tosratenaeazi; and in a late stage of th... ...an honest answer, as his modern successor; or else it refers simply to the Greek form of Christianity professed by the Russian Emperor and Church. *Th... ...isfortune, like a poor Negro of Koromantyn who is the victim of Obi.* As a Greek word, which it was, the name imported no ill; but for a Roman to say ... ...ans, and was here finally settled, after having occupied most of the great mathematicians of Europe for more than half a century. It was dedicated to ... ...e we must attribute its being so little known amongst the philosophers and mathematicians of foreign coun- tries, and also the fact that D’Alembert, w...

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...omething in me to be credible or intelligible. We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten... ...e same character! Observe the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius. We have the civil history of that people, as Herodotus, Thucy... ... sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art. And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the... ... honor and such lax discipline as great boys have? The costly charm of the ancient tragedy, and indeed of all the old literature, is that the persons ... ...s’s eye. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemera. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day. We love i... ...al; that in nature nothing can be given, all things are sold. This is that ancient doctrine of Nemesis, who keeps watch in the universe and lets no of... ...f good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians if you will, to say that the shortness of life considered, i...

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...certain knowledge of and assent to them; and, by this means, there will be no difference between the maxims of the mathematicians, and theo- rems they... ...and barbarous nations, when 55 John Locke we remember that it was a familiar and uncondemned practice amongst the Greeks and Romans to expose, with- ... ... may add, that when men so instructed are grown up, and reflect on their own minds, they cannot find anything more ancient there than those opinions, ... ...ble to have a notion of a law, and an obliga- tion to observe it. Besides the atheists taken notice of amongst the ancients, and left branded upon the... ...ill not dispute whether this acceptation of the word solid be nearer to its original signification than that which mathematicians use it in. It suffic... ...hose stock is inexhaustible and truly infinite: and what a large and immense field doth extension alone afford the mathematicians? Chapter VIII Some f... ...aily conversation; and so they become so many distinct complex ideas in their minds. Thus ostrhakismos amongst the Greeks, and proscriptio amongst the... ...ctions: v.g. boldness is the power to speak or do what we intend, before others, without fear or disorder; and the Greeks call the confidence of speak... ... The supposition, at least, that an- gels do sometimes assume bodies, needs not startle us; since some of the most ancient and most learned Fathers of...

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... this land, we soon arrived at another in which the bees and the birds are mathematicians of such genius and eru- dition, that they give daily instruc... ...g of an infinity of big books, during a long series of years, that the men-mathematicians at length arrived at the identical solutions which had been ... ...ture. During the latter part of the last century, the question arose among mathematicians—”to determine the best form that can be given to the sails o... ... been al- ways excessive and habitual. I was aware, however, that his very ancient family had been noted, time out of mind, for a peculiar sensibility... ... forget, “would leave him (him the hopeless and the frail) the last of the ancient race of the Ushers.” While he spoke, the lady Madeline (for so was ... ... from object to object, and rested upon none—neither the grotesques of the Greek painters, nor the sculptures of the best Italian days, nor the huge c... ... my arm as he sauntered around the apartment, “here are paintings from the Greeks to Cimabue, and from Cimabue to the present hour. Many are chosen, a... ...another was a “car- nival piece,” spirited beyond compare; the third was a Greek female head—a face so divinely beautiful, and yet of an ex- pression ... ...r of gigantic and gnarled trees, and where all the houses were excessively ancient. In truth, it was a dream-like and spirit-soothing place, that ven-...

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...chool made only the thinnest pre- tence of teaching anything but Latin and Greek. When I went there as a very small boy I knew a good deal of Latin gr... ...t seen a Latin inscription on a tomb that I could translate throughout. Of Greek I can decipher perhaps the greater part of the Greek alphabet. In sho... ... Cae- sar meant only being set at Virgil, with the culminating hor- ror of Greek and Homer in reserve at the end of that. I pre- ferred Caesar, becaus... ... Mount, and Machiavelli’s Prince, and La Rochefoucauld’s maxims, and Hymns Ancient and Modern, and De Glanville’s apologue, and Dr. Watts’s rhymes, an... ...cuted, and can thereby be led to the discovery that Jackson in F and Hymns Ancient and Modern are not perhaps the last word of beauty and propri- ety ... ...put into practice by any State before or since. But the Bible contains the ancient literature of a very re- markable Oriental race; and the imposition... ...“captains of industry” or scientific politicians than our book- makers are mathematicians. For some time past a significant word has been coming into ...

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... “Poets should be poor, and Pope is independent,” growled Grub Street. The ancients could not endure that a “poet should build an house, but this varl... ...was very well qualified to have translated Homer, barring his ignorance of Greek. But every page of his writings proves a wide and diversified knowled... ...er, each doing his best to render Homer, but none of them is the grand old Greek, whose lines are all simple and plain as brands, but like brands poin... ...With spurning heels, and with a butting head: To White’s be carried, as to ancient games, Fair coursers, vases, and alluring dames. ... ...s to Art. Oh! when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll’d, And vanquish’... ... in length of wishes lost. The hero then resolves his course to bend Where ancient Danaus’ fruitful fields extend; And famed Mycene’s lofty towers asc... ...kingdom.—P . 380 ‘Mad Máthesis:’ alluding to the strange conclusions some mathematicians have deduced from their principles, concern- ing the real qu... ...W . 429 ‘Moral evidence:’ alluding to a ridiculous and absurd way of some mathematicians in calculating the gradual de- cay of moral evidence by math...

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...e that I can only speak with that species of indefinite definiteness which mathematicians are, at times, forced to put up with in certain algebraic fo... ...and fine kraut. Let us proceed in a body to the borough, and re- store the ancient order of things in V ondervotteimittiss by eject- ing that little f... ... so deadly. The origin of this enmity seems to be found in the words of an ancient proph- ecy—“A lofty name shall have a fearful fall when, as the rid... ...e, thus discovered, a tendency to allay the irritable feelings of the less ancient and less wealthy Berlifitzings. What wonder then, that the words, h... ...been assured that Suky is but a vulgar corruption of Psyche, which is good Greek, and means “the soul” (that’s me, I’m all soul) and some- times “a bu... ...s me the Queen of the Hearts)—and that Zenobia, as well as Psyche, is good Greek, and that my father was “a Greek,” and that consequently I have a rig... ...ry of a Late Physician,’ where the merit lay in good rant, and indifferent Greek—both of them taking things with the public. And then there was ‘The M... ... and for ever, was actuated by the one movement of the hand. This fact the mathematicians of our globe well knew. They made the special effects, indee... ...en condi- tions, in determining the value of the original impulse. Now the mathematicians who saw that the results of any given impulse were absolutel...

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...— “Once-born” and “twice-born” charac- ters— Walt Whitman— Mixed nature of Greek feel- ing—Systematic healthy-mindedness— Its reason- ableness— Libera... ...in success of every life—Pessimism of all pure naturalism— Hopelessness of Greek and Ro- 6 The V arieties of Religious Experience man view— Pathologi... ... as objective facts to be revered. A brilliant school of interpretation of Greek mythology would have it that in their origin the Greek gods were only... ...f the subject, sadness and gladness have each been emphasized in turn. The ancient saying that the first maker of the Gods was fear receives volu- min... ...s freedom from all moral sophistry and strain, gives a pathetic dignity to ancient pagan feeling. And this quality Whitman’s outpourings have not got.... ..., it is true, to persons for whom the conception of salvation has lost its ancient theological meaning, but who labor nevertheless with the same etern... ... us- ing different conceptions and assuming different atti- tudes, just as mathematicians handle the same numeri- cal and spatial facts by geometry, b...

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...among us, the shock was not the less appalling because a few stu- dents of Greek history were not surprised by it. Indeed these students threw themsel... ... what war is. I doubt whether it was as high as our propor- tion of higher mathematicians. But there can be no doubt 21 GB Shaw that it was prodigiou... ...rymen of Vanity Fair. Another generation of “second- ary education” at our ancient public schools and the cheaper institutions that ape them will be q... ...London theatre than the Dialogues of Plato, not to mention revivals of the ancient Athenian drama and a restoration to the stage of Shakespeare’s play... ...n’t know our ways. CAPTAIN SHOTOVER [looking in from the hall suddenly: an ancient but still hardy man with an immense white beard, in a reefer jacket...

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...ppears to have been that printing was first carried on in England in an ancient chapel converted into a printing house, and the title h... ...tobiography of Benjamin Franklin 56 pleasing companion; as, like most great mathematicians I have met with, he expected universal precision in everyt... ... to be kept up, and guard maintained against the unremitting at traction of ancient habits, and the force of perpetual temp tations. This being acqu... ...modern languages which are deriv’d from it; and yet we do not begin with the Greek, in order more eas ily to acquire the Latin. It is true that, if y...