[] Re: David Corfield : Mathematical Emotion

Mathematical Emotion ~~~> Affections or Impressions of the Soul
http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2009/11/mathematical_emotion.html

Compare and Contrast:

| A mathematical or logical or any other kind of symbol is invented to serve a purpose
| purely scientific;  it is supposed to have no emotional expressiveness whatever.  But
| when once a particular symbolism has been taken into use and mastered, it reacquires
| the emotional expressiveness of language proper.
|
| R.G. Collingwood (1938), ''The Principles of Art''.

| Words spoken are symbols or signs (''symbola'') of affections or impressions (''pathemata'')
| of the soul (''psyche'');  written words are the signs of words spoken.  As writing, so also
| is speech not the same for all races of men.  But the mental affections themselves, of which
| these words are primarily signs (''semeia''), are the same for the whole of mankind, as are
| also the objects (''pragmata'') of which those affections are representations or likenesses,
| images, copies (''homoiomata'').
|
| Aristotle, "On Interpretation", H.P. Cooke (trans.)

See additional discussion and diagrams here:

http://www.chss.montclair.edu/inquiry/fall95/awbrey.html

Jon Awbrey, 20 Nov 2009, 3:36 AM
http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2009/11/mathematical_emotion.html#c029429

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