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a list of aporia I generalise into the… —gap This is in prep for an index of gap-fillers. [See Posts on the… —gap.] So, “the… —gap” is a term that refers to not knowing, but still wanting to do something because something should be done! This is an urge we have, to find shelter and food and ways to negotiate…

I’ve been thinking more about Kurt Gödel and his incompleteness theorems, ① that attack on formalism with reference to his intuitive Platonism, and ② the observer around which many human efforts are now circling, or circulating. Recommended reading: Alexander T Englert. “Kurt Gödel, His Mother and the Argument for Life after Death.” Aeon. 2 January 2024. https://aeon.co/essays/kurt-godel-his-mother-and-the-argument-for-life-after-death If, as it…

Reason ① versus Reason ② while currently reading Terry Eagleton's Culture and the Death of God Recently I’ve been circling like a vulture… I am a vulture… I am the… i am vulture thermalling above… — the gap. …looking for the signs of death below on the plains of rationality so I can feed my family in the nest, dear…

Other parts listed at Worlding and the sentimental theory of value - header Supplement on romance & romantic etymology is available here. Generated by chatGPT4 after I wrote the words below. This relates to my notice that when we throw something into the… —gap, we often do so out of an impulse, to world or to self, regardless of the in/consistency or in/coherence…

The following paper finds a gap in the ‘science’, then has some handy theology (another outcome and its derivatives of the worlding urge) to throw in the gap science has discovered. Seemingly unaware of the whole god of the gaps. From the abstract at philpapers.org: Well to be fair, not a deus ex machina, not quite a god's messenger a'leaping…

I'll take moral realism to describe all those positions which developed, whether in Christian, Islamic, Confucian or even Buddhist worldings, which feel the world would fall apart if people were not moral, that morality is somehow bound up in the substance of the world, and that one has direct access to this realm as a human (other animals not so…