Old School and No School.
- alex 6-20-2001 10:45 pm [add a comment]

• " The particular surrender of philosophy to science in the matter of logic--
  to mathematics as science's logic--is part of the general destruction philosophy
  has suffered at the hands of science, and of the general intellectual deterioration
  that science's pre-eminence in the intellectual life of this time has brought about. The
  imposition of mathematical criteria of logic on linguistic analysis has been fostering
  teachings that undermine what faith may still survive in the existence of standards of linguistic
  correctness, and the human importance of there being such standards. Where such
  an attitude of mind takes lead in the faculties of judgement, which require for their
  functioning fixed value-scales, such as are to be found stabilized by endless testing
  in the logical scheme of language, the moral energies go into decline." L(R)J
  - frank 6-21-2001 4:58 am [add a comment]




• Master-mind
  The writer crossed the river twice.
  The first time it was only ice.
  The second it was really cold,
  the oldest story had grown old,
  
  & standing on his starting bank
  he knew he had himself to thank
  & wondered why it looked so fine
  incessant frozen riverine.
  © Frank Wall 2001
  - frank 6-21-2001 5:48 pm [add a comment]