[3. And God said: ‘Let there be light.’ And there was light.]
– God, Genesis 1.
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– James Clerk Maxwell (1865), ‘A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 155, p. 459-512.
Red coated leaves like soldiers,
Fall,
In a last salute to the sky,
Dead.
– Camilla Loyd
Appiah’s rather simplistic case is economically naïve, and shallow in places. Still, I think it largely succeeds in attaining what it sets out to do, and is worth reading – although the lack of depth will be frustrating to some.
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(Trans) Transitivity
p □→ q, q □→ r, therefore p □→ r
(Contr) Contraposability
p □→ q, therefore ~q □→ ~p
(Stren) Strengthening
p □→ q, therefore (p & r) □→ q
A cute and simple overview of the landscape.
The classic study.