tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538885335616428897.post2036800565947140579..comments2024-01-09T08:17:02.166-08:00Comments on The Teacher's Closet: Mission QuestionsJohn Skarlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11157605242316166475noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538885335616428897.post-4802488283694834402015-05-09T20:17:42.385-07:002015-05-09T20:17:42.385-07:00About the subversive language--
"'It mus...About the subversive language--<br /><br />"'It must go further still: that soul must become its own betrayer, its own deliverer, the one activity, the mirror turn lamp'" ( Yeats Qtd. in Abrams, 1953).<br /><br />I recently thought about the language of math and mused upon an ancient notion involving substance and predication and that of functional notation: <br /><br />Substance is that which is not said about anything, yet substance is that about which all things are said.<br /><br />The language of math might illuminate: How might one mathematically express the words above? <br /><br />Does the following say it: f(x) or 'y' = some predication of x.<br /><br />For example, <br />y = 2x requires that whatever x is, it appears doubled and as expressed in the value of 'y' ; x, (the substance), is predicable of having being doubled, yet it is what it is,x. <br /><br />Learn the visual patterns of graphs for functions, and perhaps the possibilities of yet another rich metaphorical expression of the phenomenal universe emerges. <br /><br />How many times have I seen a natural phenomena that approximates to the <br />form f(x)= x squared....sgkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08440490164829448169noreply@blogger.com