XPost: alt.postmodern, alt.philosophy, sci.philosophy.tech   
   From: Fougueux@daeventhorizon.com   
      
   mimus wrote:   
   > On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 14:24:51 GMT, ANDERS FLODERUS wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>>Let no one post here who does not know the _Laws of Form_.   
   >>   
   >>What are the _Laws of Form_?   
   >>Or may I not ask that?   
   >   
   >   
   > A book by George Spencer Brown studying the simplest analysis, binary   
   > analysis, involving two states and a single operation, transition between   
   > those states.   
   >   
   > He provides the initials, an arithmetic and an algebra, and in the Appendix   
   > applies the algebra to propositional logic, the use of "binary resolution"   
   > with regard to which latter was the original point of departure for the   
   > study (in other words, the book is written backwards with regard to the   
   > historical course of the study, from the simplest to complex analysis, same   
   > as _Principia Mathematica_).   
   >   
   > And there's two philosophy jokes combined in that .sig.   
   >   
   > (Hints:  (1) Academy.  (2) The above description of _LoF_.)   
   >   
      
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