[lbo-talk] Chuck's Cassirer posts

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Wed Jun 18 07:58:50 PDT 2008


On Jun 18, 2008, at 8:55 AM, shag wrote:
> ...The orderliness of nature is an assumption embraced by the
> Enlightenment, upheld by Deists...

I disagree. The orderliness of nature is a reality proven by Pythagoras when he discovered that the musical scale (a fact of nature) is structured according to simple numerical ratios.

Shane Mage

"When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even downright silly.

When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner)



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