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Medieval Art, Collective Intelligence, and Lang...

Medieval Art, Collective Intelligence, and Language Abuse

Presented at Monktoberfest 2013

Tyler Hannan

October 04, 2013
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  1. or

  2. “We have made a particular effort to always use rigorously

    correct language, without sacrificing simplicity. As far as possible, we have drawn attention in the text to abuses of language without which any mathematical text runs the risk of pedantry, not to say unreadability. - Nicolas Bourbaki (1988)
  3. ‘Cheshire Puss,’ [Alice] began, rather timidly, as she did not

    at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. ‘Come, it’s pleased so far,’ thought Alice, and she went on. ‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’
  4. Sphere: “But now prepare to receive proof positive of the

    truth of my assertions. <snip> You can at least see that, as I rise in Space, so my sections become smaller.
  5. See now, I will rise; and the effect upon your

    eye will be that my Circle will become smaller and smaller till it dwindles to a point and finally vanishes.”
  6. Square: “There was no “rising” that I could see; but

    he diminished and finally vanished. I winked once or twice to make sure that I was not dreaming. But it was no dream.”
  7. “an approximate representation, on a flat surface (such as paper),

    of an image as it is perceived by the eye.”
  8. of

  9. Thus (through perspective) every sort of confusion is revealed within

    us; and this is that weakness of the human mind on which the art of conjuring and of deceiving by light and shadow and other ingenious devices imposes, having an effect upon us like magic...
  10. And the arts of measuring and numbering and weighing come

    to the rescue of the human understanding- there is the beauty of them --and the apparent greater or less, or more or heavier, no longer have the mastery over us, but give way before calculation and measure and weight?"
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  16. With  thanks,  and  apologies,to:   Lawrence  Lessig   Rolf  Skyberg

        Wri3en  while  listening  to:   Explosions  In  The  Sky,  Take  Care  Take  Care  Take  Care   Bombazine  Black,  Here  Their  Dreams   Nathaniel  Rateliff,  Falling  Faster  Than  You  Can  Run     I  am:   Tyler  Hannan   @tylerhannan