billy joe shaver and bertrand russell

What a saturday.

Nothing happened.

Till I went for a ride on my bike.

And then came back and listened to

dolly parton

crystal gayle

linda ronstadt

doc watson

and

then sitting on my verandah and playing billy joe shaver songs.

They are dead easy but you gotta sing 'em right or they sound like shit.

And then rough and rowdy ways by the doc.

Now thinking about Russell.

He met Frege at some railway station in Germany and Frege gazed into the distance and said,”sometimes time I see it clearly and then I dont”.

Frege had tried to deduce mathematics from logic and had failed.

then russell gave it a go and along with Whitehead they thought they had it.

Just when the book was being published Russell invented his famous paradox. He told Frege who had not had much of a following at home and Frege who had devoted his whole life to the search didn't live much longer.

Russell attributed his succes to Peano who he said had always framed his arguments using a certain schema and notation.

Russell invented a new set of terms and notation.

Brilliant.

In a sense his genius was to find the paradox and later in mathematics itself Goedel went after it and found it too.

Its everywhere.

you gotta walk that lonesome valley you gotta walk it by yourself.

nobody else can walk it for you.

you gotta walk that lonesome valley by yourself.

Now I am studying his inquiry into meaning and truth.

After this Russell was spent but the paradox is the important point of the whole thing.

To understand it you must first understand the whole argument.

the class of all classes not memebrs of themselves

And trying to read JK Galbraith too.

It is too esy to skim and not really absorb the whole argument and if you are like me opinionated and ready to dismiss any proposition some time by ignoring it then it is hard work. nnyahhhhhhh

Especially when you have no money.

What a joke.

Cosmic dude.

But to read Galbraith is to first understand his terms too.

More frigging work.

What is the point of the whole thing.

This montsrous apparatus.

Anyway.

Philosophers are impotent so to protect their egos and their own sense of importance they must be able to craft curious arguments that baffle interpretation and kep others at arms length.

Boo hoo.

Better stick to billy joe shaver..

and just for the creepoids something to tickle their fancy's

I wonder what a philosopher would make of this?