(1) Did you ever figure out WTF was going on at the ending of The Giver? I ended up applying the Newberry Medal rule (ie, children's lit awards ==> death and misery), but it's not actually consistent with the motivations of the characters.
(2) Anyway, there are probably many more exotic variants of logic when you start taking complexity seriously -- possibly even an ultra-intuitionism that makes sense!
(1) Did you ever figure out WTF was going on at the ending of The Giver?
so I don't remember ever reading this book, but wikipedia says, "The ending is ambiguous, with Jonas depicted as experiencing symptoms of hypothermia. This leaves his and Gabriel's future unresolved. However, their survival is made apparent in Messenger, a sequel novel written much later."
(2) Anyway, there are probably many more exotic variants of logic [...]
oh no doubt. I think when you start taking seriously the idea of logic as a universal language, then it's still a very very impoverished language, and we don't even know if we have the right base for growing a language.
when you start taking complexity seriously -- possibly even an ultra-intuitionism that makes sense!
yeah, in our hearts we know that the ultrafinitists really are right, don't we? We just don't like to admit it, because we don't know how to do the math.
I think when you start taking seriously the idea of logic as a universal language, then it's still a very very impoverished language, and we don't even know if we have the right base for growing a language.
apropos, I don't really understand what lgreg meredith is talking about in "The secret life of space", but I love the breathlessness.
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(2) Anyway, there are probably many more exotic variants of logic when you start taking complexity seriously -- possibly even an ultra-intuitionism that makes sense!
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so I don't remember ever reading this book, but wikipedia says, "The ending is ambiguous, with Jonas depicted as experiencing symptoms of hypothermia. This leaves his and Gabriel's future unresolved. However, their survival is made apparent in Messenger, a sequel novel written much later."
(2) Anyway, there are probably many more exotic variants of logic [...]
oh no doubt. I think when you start taking seriously the idea of logic as a universal language, then it's still a very very impoverished language, and we don't even know if we have the right base for growing a language.
when you start taking complexity seriously -- possibly even an ultra-intuitionism that makes sense!
yeah, in our hearts we know that the ultrafinitists really are right, don't we? We just don't like to admit it, because we don't know how to do the math.
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apropos, I don't really understand what lgreg meredith is talking about in "The secret life of space", but I love the breathlessness.
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