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   From: gcf@panix.com   
      
   ANDERS FLODERUS wrote:   
   > >>>Let no one post here who does not know the _Laws of Form_.   
      
   mimus wrote:   
   > >>What are the _Laws of Form_?   
   > >>Or may I not ask that?   
      
   Mounard le Fougueux :   
   > > 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_.)   
      
      
   Many people think _Laws of Form_ is a joke, although   
   certainly not a belly-buster like the _Tractatus_.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)