[lit-ideas] Re: It is worth a story ...
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On 12-Jun-12, at 6:44 PM, David Ritchie wrote:
It's a cliche in art that the negative space is compositionally as
important as the positive space. Not so in other fields. We know
it's there; the question is how to report it and whether it has much
meaning.
I'll offer 'negative theology' as a field in which the negative is as
important as the positive - and the poem 'Via Negativa' by R.S. Thomas
as the expression of it with which I am most sympathetic.
Why no! I never thought other than
That God is that great absence
In our lives, the empty silence
Within, the place where we go
Seeking, not in hope to
Arrive or find. He keeps the interstices
In our knowledge, the darkness
Between stars. His are the echoes
We follow, the footprints he has just
Left. We put our hands in
His side hoping to find
It warm. We look at people
And places as though he had looked
At them, too; but miss the reflection.
(Caveat: 'most sympathetic' is, yes, the superlative form, but no more
implies a great deal of sympathy than 'best' - as in 'that's the best
I can do' - implies that one would judge something as 'good'.)
Chris Bruce
Kiel, Germany
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- [lit-ideas] Re: It is worth a theorem, which is not the p minimal adequacy, since as it is, it is inconsistent. Hence Alfred Tajtelbaum, known to the ignorant of history as "tarski" proved that there exists a hierarchy such that the minimal adequacy is satisfied. That is in the "concept of truth in L" by the way studying helps.
- [lit-ideas] Re: It is worth a theorem, which is not the p minimal adequacy, since as it is, it is inconsistent. Hence Alfred Tajtelbaum, known to the ignorant of history as "tarski" proved that there exists a hierarchy such that the minimal adequacy is satisfied. That is in the "concept of truth in L" by the way studying helps.
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