February 19, 2005

• Highway

  From previous Log24.net entries:
  
  

  Eight is a Gate:

  “There is no highway in the sky.”
  – Quotation attributed to
  Albert Einstein.
  (See Gotthard Günther’s website
  “Achilles and the Tortoise, Part 2″.) 

  “Don’t give up until you
  Drink from the silver cup
  And ride that highway in the sky.”
  –  America, 1974    

  In Hoc Signo:

  “So put me on a highway….”
  — The Eagles, 1975  

  Stephen Yablo, draft of
  “A Paradox of Existence,”
  Nov. 8, 1998, section heading:

  “III. Quine’s way or the highway”

  From that section:

  “Burgess & Rosen begin their book A Subject with No Object with a relevant fable:
  

  Finally,
  after years of waiting, it is your turn to put a question to the Oracle
  of Philosophy…you humbly approach and ask the question that has been
  consuming you for as long as you can remember: ‘Tell me, O Oracle, what
  there is. What sorts of things exist?’ To this the Oracle responds:
  ‘What? You want the whole list? …I will tell you this: everything
  there is is concrete; nothing there is is abstract….’

  Suppose we continue the fable a little. Impressed with what the Oracle
  has told you, you return to civilization to spread the concrete gospel.
  Your first stop is at [your school here]….”
  
  

  The Concrete Gospel
  of Donald E. Knuth:

  In Hoc Signo
  (from yesterday),
  continued –

  

  This holy icon
  appeared at
  N37°25.638′
  W122°09.574′
  on August 22, 2003,
  at the Stanford campus.

  See also
  Cognitive Blending
  and the Two Cultures.

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