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May 1, 2013 by jfmward
I have been thinking about abstraction recently, particularly the relation of what is abstracted to what it has been abstracted …
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Category: art, philosophy
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Tags: abstraction, Art, facebook, Flann O'Brien, google plus, joke, Lempriere, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Myles na gCopaleen, Parrhasius, photoshop, Zeuxis
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April 30, 2013 by jfmward
‘A growing body of literature has linked the ability to delay gratification to a host of other positive outcomes, including …
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Category: Uncategorized
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Tags: Deferred gratification, Education, grammar, Hi-wheeler, High-wheeler, language teaching, Ordinary bicycle, Penny-farthing, Sunbeam A6
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April 29, 2013 by jfmward
Abstraction is an interesting notion. The word itself is derived from the Latin preposition ‘ab’ meaning ‘from’ or ‘away from’ …
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Category: language-related, philosophy
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Tags: abstraction, existence, Lewis Carroll, mathematics, number, philosophy, raven, Wittgenstein, writing-desk
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March 22, 2013 by jfmward
The world is a different place when people you know are gone out of it: it is as if the …
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Category: grief
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Tags: Patrick, loss, bereavement, Brendan, Pad
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March 20, 2013 by jfmward
Here is a list of words that all relate to laudable, creative activity – as practised by artists, writers and …
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Category: art, language-related, philosophy
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Tags: Art, human activity, Picasso, Plato, real life
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March 18, 2013 by jfmward
There is an interesting comparison to be made between people and language: we can – especially when we are young …
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Category: language-related, philosophy
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Tags: ambiguity, discovery, fiction, God, imaginary, invention, language, mathematics, music, Pantagruel, Rabelais, real, St Helena, truth
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February 27, 2013 by jfmward
I remember once becoming absurdly excited in Princes St. Gardens in Edinburgh – that was just where I chanced to …
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Category: art, bicycles, philosophy, theology
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Tags: Berkeley, causality, compassion, David Hume, ding-an-sich, Dursley Pedersen, Golden Rule, Kant, Karen Armstrong, Marcel Duchamp, Nietzsche, Plato, Schopenhauer, space, TED talks, time
