IRONY
Darkness is luminous:
It bends as light.
Day is over:
It rises with night.
A clock is a statue;
A desert, a lake.
Sorrow is joy;
A festival, a wake.
The moon is the sun;
The universe, a box;
Truth, appearance;
Reality, paradox.
Reality, paradox.
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| Collective Invention (1934) by Rene Magritte |
Collective Invention (1934) by Rene Magritte: Magritte transforms through reversal what was originally voluptuous fantasy into hideous chimera.
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This poem was posted at PoemVillage, April 26-May 12, 2019, Downtown Saranac Lake, New York, by the Adirondack Center for Writing.
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“IRONY”
ReplyDeleteIntuitionism is a philosophy of mathematics that was introduced by the Dutch mathematician L. E. J. Brouwer (1881–1966). Intuitionism is based on the idea that mathematics is a creation of the mind. The truth of a mathematical statement can only be conceived via a mental construction that proves it to be true, and the communication between mathematicians only serves as a means to create the same mental process in different minds.
This view on mathematics has far reaching implications for the daily practice of mathematics, one of its consequences being that the principle of the excluded middle, (A ∨ ¬A), is no longer valid.
…intuitionism…implies a severe restriction on the principles of reasoning permitted, most notably the rejection of the principle of the excluded middle.
Link: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intuitionism/
Rejection of the principle of the excluded middle is an example of an affirmation of “irony.” Rejection implies that the two component propositions of the principle may be both false or both true.
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Also published in Poetica Review, Issue 9 (Spring 2021)
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