Yes, Nabokov’s claim is only to the smiley. This author thinks he would have disapproved of Wittgenstein’s. “Nabokov was not coarse enough to imagine that his sly supine smirk should have eyes (how barbaric) or a nose (puerile)” :-) lithub.com/of-course-vl...
The emoticon was invented on September 19, 1982, by Dr. Scott Fahlman, a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh. He and his colleagues were looking for a solutio…
‘We’? Wasn’t it Nabokov?
When Sir Arthur Eddington was asked by a journalist whether it was true that only three people in the world understood Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, he thought for a moment and said, “I don’t know who the third one might be”.
“How does it come about that this arrow >>>––> points? Doesn’t it seem to carry in it something besides itself? … The arrow only points in the application that a living being makes of it.” #philsky#haneda#wittgenstein
I’m old enough to remember when ‘rôle’ wore a hat.
Looking forward to this meeting, and to catching up with several old friends!
Conference program for "Pragmatism & The Philosophy of Science" Sept 27-29 @ Western (Ontario) University is up! Speakers incl @hkandersen.bsky.social@huwprice.bsky.social@rovelli.bsky.social#philsciwww.rotman.uwo.ca/event/pragma...
I met a Cambridge urologist once, who told me about Whewellite when he learned I was a Fellow of Trinity. I almost organised a College visit for him and his urology colleagues. But if he was a typical case, they don’t know how to pronounce ‘Whewell’. #HPS#histsci
Hopefully something a bit more concentrated than On What Matters!