In Book VII of his Elements Euclid sets forth the following: Any composite number is measured by some prime number. Elements, Book VII, Pr.31 By appealing to the impossibility of an infinite regress of natural numbers, his demonstration takes the form of a reductio ad absurdum. (For the proposition, scroll to the bottom of this post) … Continue reading Euclid on Prime Numbers
The great evil of the current epidemic of outrage is the threefold alienation which is its result. Continue reading “The End of Dialogue: An Examination of Outrage”
Above image from http://www.jpaulneeley.com/process.html To remove a single ring from the image above would be to change it, to effect each and every aspect of it. Like a thread hanging from a sweater that promises, if pulled, it will behave, only to wrench some inner joint of the fabric, so is it for me to write on a Platonic dialogue. What I can … Continue reading Betrayal Through Simplification
