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We will not solve our climate problem by adjusting the width of streets.

            We will not solve our climate problem by adjusting the width of streets. Incremental changes will not save our cities. Cities will be saved by designing car free areas of areas up to a … Continue reading

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> So, is the structure of language a blueprint for the structure of the universe?

  > So, is the structure of language a blueprint for the structure of the universe?   Language seems to me a utility in itself. Language enables us to take signs that rise in reality and transform them into communication. … Continue reading

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Baseball is continuous. Society is not. Cyber will change all metrics once it gets past the infantile gadget stage.

The text below is a comment on the following: Identifying the “Sabermetrics” of Urbanism | PlaceMakers http://buff.ly/1938esZ Well now er um. As an old Doxiadis auditor, I am familiar with this thinking in a younger iteration. As a born and … Continue reading

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Continuity is central in Triadic Philosophy.

50.  Continuity is central in Triadic Philosophy. 51.   We move in one direction. 51a. We never stand still. 51b. Continuity is synonymous with life itself. 51c. We owe our understanding of continuity to Charles Sanders Peirce. 52.  Continuity and chronology … Continue reading

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Charles Sanders Peirce on the Sanctity of Guesses

  This generous quote from Charles Sanders Peirce bears all the marks of the excitation that his thought continues to produce. My cap is tipped to Matt and my sense of propriety is modified by Peirce’s own insistence that thought … Continue reading

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