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Harold Walsby: Dedication to The Paradox Principle and Modular Systems Generally

June 1, 2012

Harold Walsby Design Research Project Paper No. 1 January 1967 Communicating mathematical ideas is a problem even among mathematicians. Many leading mathematicians are distressed over a style of mathematical writing that has become commonplace in the last decade or two. Mathematical papers are compressed to the limit, until all intuitive ideas are squeezed out. As… read more »

Harold Walsby: The Paradox Principle and Modular Systems Generally

August 11, 2012

Special Announcement to Potential Subscribers: In the first days of my Design Project a few people wrote: “This all seems most abstract. What does your Paradox Principle actually do? What are its practical consequences? Has it any concrete effects on our daily lives?” The short answer is, Yes, it has potentiality for very practical results… read more »

George Walford, Eric Stockton, Jim Addison: NIAT and MetaNIAT

August 22, 2012

Letter from Jim Addison Sir, Whenever I read IC I am always baffled by this obsession with NIAT. It’s all over the place. Obviously the criticism of this made by Nicolas Walter has not been understood, so I would like to add mine as well. NIAT constitutes a paradox and as such cannot be used… read more »

George Walford: NIAT (63)

September 12, 2012

More than one correspondent has brought against NIAT the counter-example of the velocity of light, held to be not merely an absolute but a scientific one. IC has responded by pointing out that this uses ‘absolute’ in a different sense from NIAT, a more limited sense which amounts to hardly more than ‘invariant.’ It now… read more »

George Walford: Ideology in the Reviews (63)

August 22, 2012

Having (at more than one remove) a Protestant background, IC has paid insufficient attention to the less orthodox developments appearing in Catholicism. Alastair Hamilton, in Heresy and Mysticism in Sixteenth- century Spain, speaks of the alumbrados (literal meaning close to illuminati), saying they sought ‘an intenser and more personal form of religious experience than the… read more »

George Walford: That Level Playing-Field

August 22, 2012

Mae West did not say ‘Come up and see me sometime,’ Humphrey Bogart did not say ‘Play it again, Sam,’ Voltaire did not say ‘I disagree with every word you say, but would fight to the death for your right to say it’ (the phrase first appeared in a biography of him published early this… read more »

George Walford: Persistence

August 24, 2012

Ideological development is a many-sided process displaying, as one of its main features, the persistence of the modes of behaviour characteristic of the earlier ideologies. As these are transcended modes come to be disvalued and disavowed, but they do not thereby cease to influence action. The person developing the ideology of domination is likely to… read more »

George Walford: Liveried Lackeys

April 16, 2013

One might have expected the various movements opposing hierarchy and exploitation – socialism, communism and anarchism – to work together against the common opponents. But most murders take place within families, and each of these movements reserves its bitterest venom for its close predecessors in the series. Here is Trotsky on reformist socialism: Together with… read more »

George Walford: The Logic of Logics

August 25, 2012

I Some ways of thinking are more logical than others and this suggests the presence, somewhere in the background, of pure logic, a set of clear, precise and rigid laws which, if only we comply with them, will ensure that our thinking moves as if along rails to the correct conclusion. We seldom in practice… read more »

George Walford: The Napolionics of Marxism

August 27, 2012

The socialist movement (the phrase to include communists and most anarchists) claims to represent the interests of the poor, the oppressed, the exploited, the interests of the majority. On this ground it expects to receive mass support, but over a century and more this has not been forthcoming. There seems to be something wrong somewhere;… read more »