A friend recently explained to me that post-modernism is where one's meta-narrative is that there is no meta-narrative. Obviously this raised a contradiction, but then I realized that this was a modernists disproof of post-modernism, and as such was invalid.
Then I started to think about why I accept modernism as so infallible. The only answer I could come up with was "it just feels right!"
In article <sIKdnfh40-uMSvbVnZ2dnUVZ_r_in...@centurytel.net>, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <step...@math.missouri.edu> wrote:
> A friend recently explained to me that post-modernism is where one's > meta-narrative is that there is no meta-narrative. Obviously this > raised a contradiction, but then I realized that this was a modernists > disproof of post-modernism, and as such was invalid.
> Then I started to think about why I accept modernism as so infallible. > The only answer I could come up with was "it just feels right!"
> What do you think?
I recently heard some bank in Switzerland referred to as the central bank for central banks. It led me to wonder whether there is a central bank for non-central banks, and, if so, whether such a bank would be a member.
-- Gerry Myerson (ge...@maths.mq.edi.ai) (i -> u for email)
Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > A friend recently explained to me that post-modernism is where one's > meta-narrative is that there is no meta-narrative. Obviously this > raised a contradiction, but then I realized that this was a modernists > disproof of post-modernism, and as such was invalid.
> Then I started to think about why I accept modernism as so infallible. > The only answer I could come up with was "it just feels right!"
On Jul 2, 7:07 pm, Gerry Myerson <ge...@maths.mq.edi.ai.i2u4email> wrote
> I recently heard some bank in Switzerland referred to as > the central bank for central banks. It led me to wonder whether > there is a central bank for non-central banks, and, if so, > whether such a bank would be a member.
porky_pig...@my-deja.com wrote: > On Jul 2, 7:07 pm, Gerry Myerson <ge...@maths.mq.edi.ai.i2u4email> > wrote >> I recently heard some bank in Switzerland referred to as >> the central bank for central banks. It led me to wonder whether >> there is a central bank for non-central banks, and, if so, >> whether such a bank would be a member.
In article <sIKdnfh40-uMSvbVnZ2dnUVZ_r_in...@centurytel.net>, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <step...@math.missouri.edu> wrote:
> A friend recently explained to me that post-modernism is where one's > meta-narrative is that there is no meta-narrative. Obviously this > raised a contradiction, but then I realized that this was a modernists > disproof of post-modernism, and as such was invalid.
> Then I started to think about why I accept modernism as so infallible. > The only answer I could come up with was "it just feels right!"
> What do you think?
Everybody has a hidden message except post-modernists. Any post-modernist found to have a hidden message in his published work voluntarily retires to a re-education camp.
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:55:27 -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith
<step...@math.missouri.edu> wrote: >porky_pig...@my-deja.com wrote: >> On Jul 2, 7:07 pm, Gerry Myerson <ge...@maths.mq.edi.ai.i2u4email> >> wrote >>> I recently heard some bank in Switzerland referred to as >>> the central bank for central banks. It led me to wonder whether >>> there is a central bank for non-central banks, and, if so, >>> whether such a bank would be a member.
>> A member of what?
>Do banks satisfy the axiom of foundation?
There will be a charge for answering that question.
>> There will be a charge for answering that question.
>Was it Dieudonne or Godement who gave the set of honest bankers >as an example of the empty set, in a textbook?
Godement's /Algebra/, published in Paris in 1968 (that's the English translation of the 1963 French original), has some exercises referring to Algeria and suchlike matters. I haven't found the exact example you mention, but there is Remark 6 in page 32: ``in everyday life, the assertion "honest bankers exist" is not a very substantial piece of information since, by itself, it does not enable one to /exhibit/ an honest banker.''
Exercise 13 of Chapter 0 (marked as "hard") reads:
On the planet Mars there are (at a first approximation) two sorts of political opinions: right and left. On the other hand, the Martian students are divided into two associations: the Planetary Union of Martian Students (PUMS) and the Planetary Federation of Martian Students (PFMS). Knowing that the left-wing students belong to the PUMS, show that the PFMS is non-political.
<step...@math.missouri.edu> wrote: > A friend recently explained to me that post-modernism is where one's > meta-narrative is that there is no meta-narrative. Obviously this > raised a contradiction, but then I realized that this was a modernists > disproof of post-modernism, and as such was invalid.
> Then I started to think about why I accept modernism as so infallible. > The only answer I could come up with was "it just feels right!"
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:29:19 -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith
<step...@math.missouri.edu> wrote: >A friend recently explained to me that post-modernism is where one's >meta-narrative is that there is no meta-narrative. Obviously this >raised a contradiction, but then I realized that this was a modernists >disproof of post-modernism, and as such was invalid.
>Then I started to think about why I accept modernism as so infallible. >The only answer I could come up with was "it just feels right!"
