April 26, 2008

• Annals of Aesthetics:

  Mere Philosophy

  In Memory of
  Edmund Husserl
  

  "Mereology (from the Greek μερος,
  'part')
  is the theory of parthood relations:
  of the
  relations of part to whole and the
  relations of part to part within a
  whole.
  Its roots can be traced back to
  the early days of philosophy...."

  -- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

  "Beauty is the proper conformity
  of the parts to one another
  and to the whole."

  -- Classic definition quoted   
  by Werner Heisenberg
  (Log24, May 18-20, 2005)

  "It seems, as one becomes older,
  That the past has another
  pattern,
        and ceases to be a mere
  sequence...."

  -- T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

  

  See also Time Fold
  and Theme and Variations.

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