Re: Pragmatic Cosmos

Re: Gary Moore
At: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/15282

GM quoting Umberto Eco quoting Nicholas de Cusa:

 > To conclude (seeing that I began with Thomas Aquinas), I would to quote =
Nicholas of Cusa:
 > =93Only in a finite fashion is the infinite form received=94, OF LEARNED=
 IGNORANCE, II, 11).

Whatever he may have had in mind, Nick has most succinctly stated
the aesthetic principle that proofs and programs bear in common.

Cf. George Spencer Brown, ''Laws of Form'', pp. 54 & 139.

 > A demonstration rests in a finite number of steps.

And thereby hangs a tale ...

Jon

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