Oops, sorry, I was thinking of Trump. Also it’s after 5 on a Friday
> Bah! If you are, as I am, a post-modernist, explanatory power reduces
> to evocative power. Whatever I can do to evoke a predictable response
> in the audience is adequate. Although I count myself a fan of
> Wittgenstein's STFU approach, I can't deny the power of those who just
> never STFU. (Witness the interminable chants at the various pro-this,
> anti-that rallies.) It's a kind of hypnosis ... a droning on and on
> until you win over your audience with tone and rhythm more so than
> content.
>
> But w.r.t. Zweigneiderlassung, I'm currently enthralled with McShea
> and Brandon's concept of the ZFEL and "pure complexity", which (in my
> ignorance) disallows reliance on "branching" as a core concept.
> Simple counting seems more appropriate, especially since that makes
> sense to most people. I admit that McShea and Brandon seem to be
> relying fundamentally on some implicit spatial sense. But perhaps
> that's OK in this context?
>
> On 08/17/2018 03:21 PM, Robert Holmes wrote:
>> I always call it the Zweigneiderlassung.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 4:14 PM Frank Wimberly <
[hidden email]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The explanatory power of all words is limited. See Wittgenstein.
>>> Wovon
>>> Mann nicht sprechen kann daruber muss Mann schweigen.
>
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