Category Archives: meaning

Deconstruction: What you don’t say is what you do

Posted on March 29, 2018 by draulston

I came across the document copied at the end of this post in the faculty room this morning.  I glanced down it and, perhaps prompted by a book I’m reading now (From the Ruins of Empire), I began to comment to … Continue reading →

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How math theorems really get discovered–maybe

Posted on April 25, 2017 by draulston

This specific post is in response to a query about a derivation of what’s commonly known as Green’s Theorem that I had my MVC class work through, but the general ideas are applicable to a very wide range of ideas/theorems/developments … Continue reading →

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Works in Translation

Posted on February 13, 2017 by draulston

Awhile back, Ryan Bloom wrote an article in “The New Yorker” about what the first line in Camus’s The Stranger should be.  I found it interesting and plausible (albeit long-winded). As my “Philosophy and Literature” class has been discussing “meaning” … Continue reading →

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