December 23, 2006

• Meet Max Black, continued

  Black Mark

  Bernard Holland in The New York Times on Monday, May 20, 1996:

  "Philosophers
  ponder the idea of identity: what it is to give something a name on
  Monday and have it respond to that name on Friday...."

  Log24 on Monday, Dec. 18, 2006: "I did a column in Scientific American on minimal art, and I reproduced one of Ed Rinehart's [sic] black paintings." -- Martin Gardner (pdf) "... the entire profession has received a very public and very bad black mark." -- Joan S. Birman (pdf) Lottery on Friday, Dec. 22, 2006:

  
  5/04, 2005:

  
  Analysis of the structure
  of a 2x2x2 cube

  

  via trinities of
  projective points
  in a Fano plane.

  7/15, 2005:

  "Art history was very personal
  through the eyes of Ad Reinhardt."

   

  -- Robert Morris,
  Smithsonian Archives
  of American Art

  Also on 7/15, 2005,
  a quotation on Usenet:

  "A set having three members is a
  single thing wholly constituted by
  its members but distinct from them.
  After this, the theological doctrine
  of the Trinity as 'three in one'
  should be child's play."

  -- Max Black,
  Caveats and Critiques:
  Philosophical Essays in
  Language, Logic, and Art

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