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Epigrams On Programming
Computers process numbers, not symbols
Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
Science can show us how opinions come to existence
From this world of conception it is in the power of science to release us only to a slight extent—and this is all that could be wished—inasmuch as it cannot eradicate the influence of hereditary habits of feeling, but it can light up by degrees the stages of the development of…
Ironism - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Ironist
Ironist (n. Ironism) (from Greek: eiron, eironeia), a term coined by Richard Rorty, describes someone who fulfills three conditions: She has radical and continuing doubts about the final vocabulary she currently uses, because she has been impressed by other vocabularies…
Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan)
Augustine divides the sign into natural signs and given signs
Augustine divides the sign into the two main classes of natural signs (signa naturalia) and given signs (signa data). “Natural signs are those which, apart from any intention or desire of using them as signs, do yet lead to the knowledge of something else”,[8] as, for example…