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  1. Long. Fascinating. Buckle up and read.

    Physicist says: “Putnam really should be regarded as one of the great philosophers of the 20th century. Yet he’s completely unknown.“

    Journalist says: “That word—unknown—it came to haunt me as I spent the next 12 years trying to find out why.“

    Philosopher says: “He was a genius. Every talk with him had this level of significance that was just orders of magnitude higher up than a normal conversation with a normal human being.”

    “Turing had worked out an abstract, universal model of the very possibility of computation, Putnam worked out an abstract, universal model of the very possibility of mind. It was a model, he wrote, that ‘presents a basic overall pattern [or] character of thought in causal terms for the first time.’”

    Via @freakonometrics
    #academicchatter #observers #science #induction #allegorical #neuroscience

    nautil.us/finding-peter-putnam

  2. #Allegorical figures of #plenty: #Flora,# Ceres, #Ops (abundance) and #Pales (goddess of shepherds, here described as rustica cum caseo - with cheese!) All playing #cornetti

    To the right, the #elemental figures of Ignis (fire) and Aer (air) - the other two #elements are on the following page.

    From the #16thCentury #pageantbook showing the 8 #pageants held for the Christening of Princess Elisabeth of Hesse in 1596.
    Bavarian State Library: Cod.icon. 340.

    #earlymusic @earlymusic #earlymodern @earlymodern #cheese #histodon #histodons @histodons @histodon #cornet #cornetto #cornett #allegory #mythology #latin