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Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the klein group. File : /Klein - Nature...
3 Aug 11, 2009
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Robert Eldon Taylor
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I have joined this group in order to look for ideas and resources we can use in a Klein reading group in summer of 2009. Thanks for the chance to browse...
6 Jul 31, 2009
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ana fabre
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I notice several new members but no postings. Why did you join? B...
12 Jul 31, 2009
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For Diane and anyone else interested in reading through Klein this summer: WELCOME! I had stumbled across this YahooGroup quite by accident and would be glad...
1 May 29, 2009
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Laura Gibbs
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Ideas often come in clusters, lacking what might be called 'the cohesive'. Not to fear, try reading several books on the general topic at once then switch to...
2 Jun 2, 2007
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Newbie here, just finished a first reading of klein's introduction to his book. By 'weight', my first impression is, klein's work takes thought down to thee...
14 Dec 31, 2006
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Ciao a tutti della lista, In his discussion of Vieta, Klein asserts that Vieta's concept "species" is the modern concept of number. There is some difficulty...
1 Dec 12, 2006
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Robert Eldon Taylor
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Bob, As I am sure you know, overwhelmingly the largest cause of delay in any computing process is the step that requires human input. The slow response should...
1 Nov 26, 2006
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Lancelot R. Fletcher
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I am trying to find the following article from the Journal of the History of Ideas which, based on an abstract, seems to discuss Klein's ideas about...
4 Aug 30, 2006
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Does discussion of jacob klein's work assume that the fundamentals of modern algebra, such as spencer-browns's laws of form, have masked the greek meaning of...
1 Aug 6, 2006
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dear moderator i am changing my address from chofborg1@... to pieiphi@... thanks len gallagher...
1 Nov 8, 2005
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New member, my dover paperback copy of klein's book just arrived. Reading the backcover notes i was struck by the words, "...klein investigates the revival and...
1 Jul 25, 2005
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High, I just found this list searching Jacob Klein on the internet. I am intersted in doing graduate studies on dialogue, synthetic and analytic inquiry, and...
3 May 7, 2005
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brandon spun
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Hello Is this list working - old messages seem to be missing. bill...
3 Jan 19, 2005
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Hello Klein group: Ah, so the bright sun of summer shines upon us (in the northern hemisphere) and invites us to a thoroughgoing Aristotelian critique of ...
15 Nov 15, 2003
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This invitation pertains to two different groups. One is the plato-phaedo list, the other is a list called philosophy2. Both are groups that existed in the...
1 Sep 28, 2003
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Lancelot R. Fletcher
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Hi Klein group: Put away that book and turn on the tube! If you get PBS on TV (maybe this only applies to Klein list folks in the US) there is an upcoming...
1 Sep 27, 2003
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I will be away from internet access from August 10 until August 17 (I will be vacationing in a cottage on the shore of the Black Sea in Sarpi -- about 130 km....
1 Aug 10, 2003
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I am pleased to announce the creation of two new slow reading lists -- for Plato's Lysis (plato-lysis@yahoogroups.com) and Plato's Philebus ...
1 Aug 9, 2003
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1 Jun 4, 2003
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Hi Bill: This post points to where Aristotle is distinguishing cases of priority. ... In Metaphysics (1077b1) Aristotle says "...not all things which are prior...
1 May 16, 2003
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Hello again Bill & Klein readers: Let me point out a place in the Metaphysics where Aristotle's remarks against separate Forms are particularly caustic. I'll...
1 May 15, 2003
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Hello Klein group: On p. 91, Klein says, "...as Aristotle reports...there are three kinds of arithmoi: (i) the arithmos eidetikos--idea number, (ii) the...
15 May 13, 2003
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... Many authors (Heath, Kline, van der Waerden, Anglin) do interpret ancient mathematics using modern concepts and notations; this helps us understand more...
9 Mar 29, 2003
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... The following quotes are from Klein's "About Plato's Philebus." For the most part, I believe their meaning is sufficiently clear without further comment. ...
1 Mar 16, 2003
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Burt Hopkins
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Hi Kalev: ... That might be an implicit acceptance of the distinction, nothing more. ... 1. In Parmenides (130b): Parm.: "Have you yourself drawn this...
20 Mar 15, 2003
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Dear List Members: Ron Allen has done yeoman's service, and as I am desirous to get to 7C I will want to begin the section as Mr. Allen has cleaned up 7B...
9 Feb 24, 2003
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Hi Kalev & Unfulfilled Many: OK, OK, let's move forward. ... Many, many people--highly educated people--believe (even as I type!) in the existence, outside of...
2 Feb 7, 2003
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Hello Klein students: I want to expropriate J Keyser's attached post below for the purpose of summarizing some of my remaining questions about Klein's Chapter...
7 Feb 6, 2003
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Hello Aristotelians & Kalev Pehme: Well, Kalev, I'm more than a little disappointed that you bristled at my blunt statement that Aristotle was an enemy of...
2 Feb 6, 2003
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