GRGR (20) Special Topic: Is It OK to Be a Manichean?

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

 [- michael, brilliant job: thanks a lot! hope to find time later this week to  
 post some adorno on german music. kai]


Michael  schrieb:

> However, I
> don’t believe it is the point of all this that life IS only a matter
> of opposites, but that there are people that DO go through their
> lives thinking the world is a two party system. 

   "in the beginning god created heaven & earth." (genesis, take-off)

    "... and can begin to see how the familiar laws of our own experience follow 
    inexorable from the original act of severance. the act is itself already    
    remembered, even if unconsciously, as our first attempt to distinguish     
    different things in a world where, in the first place, the boundaries can be 
    drawn anywhere we please. at this stage the universe cannot be distinguished 
    from how we act upon it, and the world may seem like shifting sand beneath  
    our feet.
    although all forms, and thus all universes, are possible, and any particular 
    form is mutable, it becomes evident that the laws relating such forms are 
    the same in any universe ...
    we take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication, and 
    that we cannot make an indication without drawing a distinction. we take, 
    therefore, the form of distinction for the form. 
    ... a distinction is drawn by arranging a boundary with seperate sides so 
    that a point on one side cannot reach the other side without crossing the   
    boundary. for example, in a plane space a circle draws a distinction ...   
    draw a distinction!" (george spencer brown: laws of form [1969])

    anyone for the mathematical background?  kfl