Epstein Secrets

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Bickford, Edmund Carpenter, Werner Heisenberg, Sir James Jeans, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Wallace Stevens, Leon Brillouin, T. S. Eliot, I. A. Richards, Gertrude Stein, Max Born, J. Andrade e Silva, P. W. Bridgman, R. Buckminster Fuller, Sir Arthur Eddington, William Empson, C. G. Jung, Bertrand Russell, William Bu

nnamable, op. cit., pp. 394-95. aceThere was never . . . me of me.a A A a Valery, op. cit., p. 40. AceWhen I dream I . I not . . . Nature% A A 54. Brown, op. cit., p. 100. acea fall into . . . natural object: tprojected.aTMa Acethe death of . . . birth of poetry.fi A A a Ibid., p. 107 (quoting Blake)

y Complementarities" in The Screens and Other Poems (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1960), p. 34. ace Where you end . . . draw a line" A A jj, Gertrude Stein, Lectures in America (Boston: Beacon Press 1935), pp. 209-10. ficeA noun is . . . write about it.fi A A n Eliot, ficeFour Quartets" op. cit., p. 126

together intellectuals, philosophers, psychologists, =nd scientists. Each has been asked to lecture on his own work in terms =f its relationship to Brown's new ideas in mathematics. C. Spencer =rown lectures for two days on his Laws of Form. Alan Watts talks of =astern religious thought. John Lilly di

Will Schutz, Claudio Naranjo, and Charles Tart are in =ttendance. Heinz von Foerster holds forth on cybernetic modeling. My =wn topic is "Einstein, Gertrude Stein, Wittgenstein, and Frankenstein." Perhaps, of all the "Masters" present, Gregory Bateson, at sixty-eight, =s at once the best known and the least kn

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s, which disapprove of logical certitude on grounds not clear to me. They are wrong. A rose is a rose. Nor are all examples as inane as that one from Gertrude Stein. All of math is derived as logical certitude. Its proof comes from analysis, not experiment. Proof of Fermat’s last theorem eluded some of the finest

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accent, “you are a phony.” “And, John”, he continued, Iam a phony. But John, Iam a real phony!” The next day I gave my lecture, entitled "Einstein, Gertrude Stein, Wittgenstein, and Frankenstein." Einstein: the revolution in 20" century physics; Gertrude Stein: the first writer who made integral to her work the

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accent, “you are a phony.” “And, John”, he continued, Iam a phony. But John, Iam a real phony!” The next day I gave my lecture, entitled "Einstein, Gertrude Stein, Wittgenstein, and Frankenstein." Einstein: the revolution in 20" century physics; Gertrude Stein: the first writer who made integral to her work the