Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Sonnet 6 by George Boole (mathematician/logician, 1815-1864)

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Sonnet 6 by George Boole (1815-1865)

To note… Mathematician, philosopher, logician, poet, first professor of mathematics at then newly formed Queen's College Cork (now University College Cork), and astonishingly self-taught for having to brilliantly develop then establish what later became known as Boolean algebra/logic.

Thou that in secret chambers dost portray
The pictures of the past, whence some return,
And some, like ashes in the buried urn,
Lie hid, not lost, till one Diviner Ray

Shall through thy inmost caverns pour the day;
Oh, Memory! If to me thy lessons stern
Sometimes appear, let me not less discern
The deep and wholesome wisdom they convey;

But when the years to vanity betrayed
Rise threat'ning from gulfs to which they fled
Give me to see in each reproachful shade

A messenger, on solemn errand sped;
`Tis not with purpose vain they they invade
The nightly pillow and the wakeful bed.

June 1849

According to Desmond MacHale, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at University College Cork, in his book The Poetry of George Boole (Oct 2020)...

"On the surface, this sonnet would appear to be a straightforward tribute to the physical and spiritual aspects of memory, but in the light of subsequent events, perhaps it has a deeper significance than even Boole himself may have been aware of. It (Sonnet 6) was written in 1949, between the publications of his two major books, The Mathematical Analysis of Logic in 1847, and The Laws of Thought in 1854. In the hands and fertile mind of Claude Shannon (1916-2001) these books led to an algebraic formulation of the operation of electronic switching circuits and eventually to the invention of the modern digital computer. Boole relates that he was blessed with an almost photographic memory which he later described in the following words:

This does not result so much from strength of memory as from the power of arrangement which provides its proper place in the mind for every fact and idea and thus enables me to find at once what I want just as you would know in a well-ordered set of drawers where to lay your hand in a moment upon any article you required.

In Sonnet 6, was Boole now thinking about the physical process of memory in the human brain, and how information is stored there, and why certain memories 'lie hid but not lost'?"

Hence the necessary prerequisites or building blocks (among others) towards the Digital/Information Age; the refinement of the binary numbering system by Leibniz, the further development of algebra/logic by Boole otherwise known as Boolean algebra/logic, the expansion of truth tables by Wittgenstein, the proliferation of logic gates then formation of the Digital Circuit Design Theory by Shannon, on shoulders and/or in collaboration of many others... (see link above for entire post)

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Quote by D.C. Quillan Stone

Quote and Book by Claude-Frédéric Bastiat

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Quote below taken from a book I highly recommend entitled THE LAW by Claude-Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850). Free e-book and e-collection of Bastiat’s work are courtesy of Mises Institute

“We hold from God the gift that, as far as we are concerned, contains all others, Life—physical, intellectual, and moral life.

But life cannot support itself. He who has bestowed it, has entrusted us with the care of supporting it, of developing it, and of perfecting it. To that end, He has provided us with a collection of wonderful faculties; He has plunged us into the midst of a variety of elements. It is by the application of our faculties to these elements that the phenomena of assimilation and of appropriation, by which life pursues the circle that has been assigned to it are realized.

Existence, faculties, assimilation—in other words, personality, liberty, property—this is man.

It is of these three things that it may be said, apart from all demagogic subtlety, that they are anterior and superior to all human legislation.

It is not because men have made laws, that personality, liberty, and property exist. On the contrary, it is because personality, liberty, and property exist beforehand, that men make laws. What, then, is law? As I have said elsewhere, it is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.”

Sunday, May 1, 2022

Vox Humana Unius Vox Humana Alterius Non

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So it follows (to reiterate), one’s human voice certainly is not the same as God’s voice or in Latin vox humana vox dei non, nor one’s human voice the same as another’s human voice or also in Latin vox humana unius vox humana alterius non. The finiteness of humanity, nay the precise position ergo finiteness of each and every individual’s space (x,y,z) at any given moment in time (t), preempts observably, logically, consistently any conjured justification to presume to think, speak then act on behalf of God or another individual....


Sunday, April 24, 2022

Vox Humana Vox Dei Non

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As logically noted by Aristotle (384-322 BC) per the section Posterior Analytics of his work Organon…

"Now since the required ground of our knowledge---i.e. of our conviction---of a fact is the possession of such a syllogism... and the ground of the syllogism is the facts constituting its premises, we must not only know the primary premises---some if not all---beforehand, but know them better than the conclusion... So since the primary premises are the cause of our knowledge---i.e. of our conviction---it follows that we know them better---that is, are more convinced of them---than their consequences, precisely our knowledge of the latter is the effect of our knowledge of the premises."

Mere conclusions (i.e. outcomes) are the priorities of the 21st century mind, often to the exclusion of the laborious, arduous yet necessary process(es) of premises, observations, evidences, tests, determinations, propositions, syllogisms (logic), consistencies, ethics and more. Consequently, the adult mind remains entirely adolescent, far too deficient to exercise any meaningful analysis particularly complex as well regularly simplistic even commonly routine....

Sunday, April 17, 2022

To Prefer Even Propend Is To Reason

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Every member of the specie human constantly prefers or not prefers, consistently propends or not propends. That is to say, each individual prefers or propends “this” else prefers or propends “that” then prefers or propends “that” else prefers or propends “this” and so on. Preference even Propensity are neither an elected preoccupations nor chosen activities, rather continuous states of human existence. To contend the self-evident, to reason is human (see Proem & Poem Nos. 22-24, 33, 34) is to redundantly confirm to prefer even propend is to reason else something instinctive....

Saturday, April 16, 2022

12th Book on Ability to Reason, Right to Consent; Proposition, Problem & Poem No. 275

Most likely to be published later this summer of 2022, my 12th book entitled appropriately; Propositions, Problems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing, and front cover a slightly modified yet appropriate version of the 10th and 11th books...



PROPOSITION, PROBLEM & POEM No. 275

~ Various Final Thoughts ~

Poetry is harmonious utilization of thought and language as much as logic the science of sciences, thus empirical considerations, methodical categorizations, analytical comparisons then logical conclusions inevitably lending towards observable constancies, practical consistencies, applicable ethics or moralities, as well beautiful even astonishing poetics.

With that said, consider the below quote taken from the work Sic Et Non by Peter Abelard (1079-1142), as diligently stated by the philosopher, logician, theologian, teacher, musician, composer, and poet.

Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom... For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth.

Questioning and doubting observably, logically, ethically oppose the fool's drone-like acceptance of science, fact, truth or common good as though "in" or "settled", foregone conclusively as often promulgated by empowered institutions whether the 16th century Catholic Church, 17th century Puritan Massachusetts, 18th century British Empire, 20th century Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Communist Russia as well 20th/21st century Centralist, Crony-Corporatist therefore Anti-Individualist, Anti-Capitalist America.

Instead, the pursuit of knowledge, logic, consistency, ethic, truth, discernment, wisdom comes only by ceaseless study, endless ponder, tireless labor until one's last breath. The same ends pursued by lesser effort leads unavoidably, inevitably to ignorance, illogic, inconsistency, immorality, falsity, dullness and foolishness.

Furthermore as such, these are unavoidable dynamics or as some would call it, natural laws. Success is not guaranteed but only possible per our willingness to fail upon our willingness to labor. Likewise, to do right or to be moral is best determined per our willingness to bear fully our own responsibilities and risks, while constantly respecting, consistently regarding each and every person's singular human right to consent or dissent on all matters. Do this not, then success impossible thus failure ensued while immorality ensured.

As already mentioned else implied in various statements, all politics are discussions then implementations disguised by convenient, expedient and/or benevolent terms, intellectualized as intriguing, alluring, endearing even titillating isms, however achieved by the sufficient gathering and colluding of the consented so to coerce the dissented. Imperatively as well axiomatically the moral burden of proof rests on those who embrace their preferred form of politics as something other than first covetousness followed by presumption then arrogance and finally violence manifested as nothing more than force arbitrarily legalized.

And finally, it must be stated once again. There is one morality, one ethic, one right, one ism (see Proposition, Problem & Poem No. 274), consequently all other moralities, all other ethics, all other rights, all other isms must first be mutually, unanimously consented hence the regard for the Singular Human Right to Consent or Dissent on all matters, as determined and manifested by the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason, else the entire affair immoral, unethical even inhumane if forcefully imposed. 

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And so it goes per cigarette pouts, martini slurs o'er high-heel stirs
Seasoned terse withal usual curse, twice recited, thrice liken verse
Mid cornet and saxophone blown, blue and mauve notes so moaned
Heaving as bosom-tones, ear-suckled by hungry souls, each alone

Each lonely in self-made worlds, as perpetuated inwardly towards
Moralized narcissism, benevolent selfishness per the lowing discords
Centering on lack of observation, analysis, determination along logic
So, inconsistencies, complexities aft’ covetous urges as noble politics

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.


Copyright © 2022 by D.C. Quillan Stone

Monday, April 11, 2022

John Locke and Francis Schaeffer / Parts 6-9 (1-5 last week)

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By such trust upon a nontransparent government established by humanity therefore fallibility, foolishly trusted indeed is coercion or force executed by humanity therefore executed by fallibility...

Monday, April 4, 2022

Mark Twain quotes on education...

"Many public-school children seem to know only two dates--1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion."

"Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned."

"It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so."

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Sunday, April 3, 2022

John Locke and Francis Schaeffer / Parts 1-5 (6-9 next week)

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All politics are discussions then implementations of "force" disguised by expedient and/or benevolent terms...

Saturday, April 2, 2022

12th Book on Ability to Reason, Right to Consent; Proposition, Problem & Poem No. 273

Most likely to be published later this summer of 2022, my 12th book entitled appropriately; Propositions, Problems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing, and front cover a slightly modified yet appropriate version of the 10th and 11th books...



PROPOSITION, PROBLEM & POEM No. 273

~ William Thomson and Hobbes' Unresistible Might ~

Adequate notions are those in which, besides enumerating the marks, we can explain them; that is, can enumerate the marks of the marks of the distinct notions, and again the marks of those marks… So we have an adequate notion of what Hobbes means by Rights, when we not only know it is “unresistible might in a state of nature,” but can explain what unresistible might and state of nature are.

William Thomson, Archbishop of York (1819-1890)

As taken from his 1842 book An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought: A Treatise on Pure and Applied Logic, thus interestingly to note the applicably quoted phrase unresistible might per Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679).

For who neither observes nor concludes his/her own persistence then insistence towards the singular human right to consent or dissent on all matters, whether to then allow else deny the exercise of the same with much diligence and determination?

For who neither observes nor concludes others’ persistence then insistence towards the singular human right to consent or dissent on all matters, whether to then allow else deny the exercise of the same with much diligence and determination?

The master of a plantation, the tyrant of a kingdom, the dictator of a regime, as well the prime minister of a parliamentary government, even the president of a democratic republic, all without exception are fully aware of their own and others’ persistence then insistence towards the singular human right to consent or dissent on all matters, while covetously deliberating, presumptuously disrespecting, arrogantly disregarding then forcefully disallowing the same for any and all. For the very use of force so to disallow others therefore legislate, regulate, prohibit, ban, sanction, mandate, order, tax (then provide, subsidize, grant, etc.), confiscate, intervene, prevent, intrude, impose, monitor, spy as well invade, occupy, destroy, annihilate others, confirms the enforcer’s recognition of such persistence, insistence thus potential resistance upon the singular right and unresistible might.

So it follows, regardless the political rhetoric and/or social admonition, human actions inevitably reveal the covetous expectation hence presumptuous intention, regularly cloaked by the Golden Rule per some contorted version then sorted perversion thereof, while generally ignored the Silver Rule per some distorted convenience then consorted expedience.

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Surrogates dire as ablated by liars, charlatans, schemers, deceivers
Per covetousness, presumption, arrogance unrestrained thus levered
Until fevered, hence believers of such nonsense, ignorance, lunacy
Atrocious come nigh, vociferous the cry, ergo ill the importunacy

Hence the belligerency as commonly ensued by the ever expansion
Never the contraction per assumption of further double-speculation
Hence lies are truths, truths are lies, reaffirmed if asserted twice
Recited thrice to suffice vogue hysterics pining for rogue paradise

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.


Copyright © 2022 by D.C. Quillan Stone

Sunday, March 27, 2022

Two Propositions on Humanity and Polity

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It is not that any one person may be corrupt, nor one person more corrupt than another, rather every person therefore Human Nature corrupt... Thus government power of all forms corruptive...

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

12th Book on Ability to Reason, Right to Consent; Proposition, Problem & Poem No. 272

Most likely to be published later this summer of 2022, my 12th book entitled appropriately; Propositions, Problems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing, and front cover a slightly modified yet appropriate version of the 10th and 11th books...



PROPOSITION, PROBLEM & POEM No. 272

~ William Thomson and Plato’s Forms / Reprise ~

Remember then, that I directed you not to teach me some one or two holy acts out of many, but that very form by which all holy acts are holy… Teach me, then, the nature of that form itself, that looking to it and using it for our example, I may declare any of the actions of yourself or any other, which partakes of this nature, to be holy, and any not so partaking, not to be holy.

So eloquently stated Plato (428-347 BC) per his Euthyphro 6, as footnoted by William Thomson, Archbishop of York (1819-1890) in his 1842 book An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought: A Treatise on Pure and Applied Logic.

May the mind diligently pursue moral understanding, to seek not lists of acts, behaviors, postures, nor seek to enumerate bills or articles of rights whether human or constitutional, instead seek to deliberate then determine observably, logically, consistently therefore ethically. In so doing, critically reducing lists, bills, articles of pluralities to a principle, morality, ethic, right of singularity by which all things are judged then condemned else justified.

If seeking to enumerate formally or informally two or more holy acts of many, if depending on the same holy acts, moralities, rights, ethics and/or rights to moderate either society or oneself, then ensured are various arbitraries, complexities thus inconsistencies as well contradictions, hypocrisies, confutations, discrepancies even conflicts, brutalities and more. For without an observable, logical, consistent therefore singular principle as the universal determinant, then inevitably arbitrary any list, bill, article of compiled holy acts, moralities, rights, ethics and/or rights.

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Worsened the naked intuition, the erroneous, excessive propensities
Ah the sinful originalities (ergo hinted the skint among the polities)
So go the spark off flint upon stone, the flame `low muck and mire
Hardening to fuckin’ pride, hoisted thereon society’s arrogant spire 

Surrogates dire as ablated by liars, charlatans, schemers, deceivers
Per covetousness, presumption, arrogance unrestrained thus levered
Until fevered, hence believers of such nonsense, ignorance, lunacy
Atrocious come nigh, vociferous the cry, ergo ill the importunacy

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.


Copyright © 2022 by D.C. Quillan Stone

Monday, March 21, 2022

Burden of Responsibility and Risk

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Moral teachings theological, spiritual, philosophical, educational consequently social as well political cannot achieve moderate character without human activity’s burden of responsibility and risk...

Thursday, March 3, 2022

12th Book on Ability to Reason, Right to Consent; Proposition, Problem & Poem No. 271

Most likely to be published later this summer of 2022, my 12th book entitled appropriately; Propositions, Problems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing, and front cover a slightly modified yet appropriate version of the 10th and 11th books...



PROPOSITION, PROBLEM & POEM No. 271

~ William Thomson and Plato’s Forms ~

Forms (laws, theories) have triple mode of existence; they exist in the Divine Mind as ideas, and are the archetypes of creation; they exist as embodied in "instances" or examples, in which mode they are laws; they exist, lastly, in the human mind as ideas; thus they precede creation, they are in it, they succeed it.

William Thomson, Archbishop of York (1819-1890)

Taken from his 1842 book An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought: A Treatise on Pure and Applied Logic, the statement indicates three modes, yet one implied albeit paramount; preexistence then persistence of principle.

To expected of course the following retort. What principle? He speaks of mode or process. However, the logical counter would be the reiteration of the same mode(s) or process(es) as the very basis of principle if not morality or ethic. Accordingly it has been numerously, variously agued in this and last two books, the mere existence of the peculiar human ability of reason demands an ethical consideration and posture, while the significant distinction among all other species by the same human peculiarity demands a moral outcry if intervened, interfered, imposed, interrupted, inhibited, intruded or invaded.

If observably, logically, consistently accepted the peculiar human ability to reason as undeniable, unavoidable indication towards a singular principle fundamental, moral, ethical, it greatly challenges the common view hence preference for such in plural forms; lists of moralities, bills of rights, tablets of commandments, volumes of ethics, books of admonitions/proverbs, and other inconsistencies thus complexities. For the aforesaid common view hence preference have historically facilitated innumerable depravities therefore atrocities, monstrosities, inhumanities levied upon the singular human right to consent or dissent on all matters, as manifested per the peculiar human ability to reason.

The same facilitation prevails today for the perceived good intention or imagined common good hobbles the discernment, befuddles the judgment, misdirects the conclusion while enlivens the self-righteousness.

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Upon the lush emerald hill she lays, then oddly slumbers in saunters
Ponders `tween maunders, liken ancient sages amid tombs and altars
O the mysteries as Love’s epistles and individuals’ logical passions
Numerous while exclusive to each and every person’s sacred bastion 

Worsened the naked intuition, the erroneous, excessive propensities
Ah the sinful originalities (ergo hinted the skint among the polities)
So go the spark off flint upon stone, the flame `low muck and mire
Hardening to fuckin’ pride, hoisted thereon society’s arrogant spire

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.


Copyright © 2022 by D.C. Quillan Stone

Saturday, February 19, 2022

12th Book on Ability to Reason, Right to Consent; Proposition, Problem & Poem No. 267

Most likely to be published later this summer of 2022, my 12th book entitled appropriately; Propositions, Problems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing, and front cover a slightly modified yet appropriate version of the 10th and 11th books...



PROPOSITION, PROBLEM & POEM No. 267

~ George Boole and Aristotle's Dictum / Reprise ~

To further correlate although elaborate briefly, so it follows (although see first Proposition, Problem & Poem No. 266).

Religion often parallels while considering particularly Christianity’s various binaries longstanding like Morality versus Iniquity, Righteousness versus Sin, Salvation versus Damnation, Holy versus Unholy, Heaven versus Hell, Form versus Void, Light versus Darkness and so it follows, Angels versus Demons/Devils, Gabriel versus Lucifer, God versus Satan and dramatically iconic; Heel of Christ versus hence upon Head of Serpent.

Obviously, some would retort then claim as unnecessary, irrelevant even injurious such theological references as compelling parallels. Howbeit, would such historically comparative prevalence, thematic consistency be so quickly ignored, so easily discarded if categorically something other?

As much as there is observably critical significance to identify the point in history then forward shared by the Evolutionist and Creationist per the moment the specie human first reasoned (see Proem & Poem No. 199), so it is by the aforementioned correlations, elaborations thus parallels, rendering no less, no more charity the logical harmony of it all if to insist either posture as arguably superior.

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Frailties abate not, rather one’s state of Self quite fraught
All a fright as the human lot mid rock and stone well caught
Fuck then roam, aft’ feast later moan, ergo fight on wet loam
The mud sanguine with blood per presumption’s syndrome 

Ah, arrogance’s drones hail and prevail on confiscated air
`Hind subsidized podiums too, thus breastplate’d the au pairs
Shielding the covetous glares, the shroud as cloak tent-flaps
Upon socio-rapes across politic-scapes, the fondest of traps

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.


Copyright © 2022 by D.C. Quillan Stone

Friday, February 18, 2022

12th Book on Ability to Reason, Right to Consent; Proposition, Problem & Poem No. 266

Most likely to be published later this summer of 2022, my 12th book entitled appropriately; Propositions, Problems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing, and front cover a slightly modified yet appropriate version of the 10th and 11th books...



PROPOSITION, PROBLEM & POEM No. 266

~ George Boole and Aristotle's Dictum ~

It may be a question whether that formula of reasoning, which is called the “dictum” of Aristotle,” de omni et nullo”, expresses a primary law of human reasoning or not; but it is no question that it expresses a general truth in Logic. Now that truth is made manifest in all its generality by reflection upon a single instance of its application.

George Boole (1815-1864)

He was of course referring to the Latin phrase fully contiguous; dictum de omni et nullo. In paraphrased English, so it goes; it was said of all and none, or to also say, the maxim all or none. In his 1854 book An Investigation of The Laws of Thought, further maintaining, Boole wrote on…

 That which may be regarded as essential in the spirit and procedure of the Aristotelian, and of all cognate systems of Logic, is the attempted classification of the allowable forms of inference, and the distinct reference of those forms, collectively or individually, to some general principle of an axiomatic nature, such as the “dictum of Aristotle:” Whatsoever is affirmed or denied of the genus may in the same sense be affirmed or denied of any species included under that genus.

The noted Greek philosopher earlier to the dictum stated quite clearly regarding every premiss, each consideration per objective if you will…

Every premiss states that something either is or must be, or may be the attribute of something else.

Aristotle (384-322 BC), Organon / Analytica Priora, Book I

Then to thematically combine, William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882) well articulated in his book Elementary Lessons in Logic Deductive and Inductive published in 1870 (see Proposition, Problem & Poem No. 225)…

These laws describe the very simplest truths, in which all people must agree, and which at the same time apply to all notions which we can conceive. It is impossible to think correctly and avoid evident self-contradiction unless we observe what are called the Three Primary Laws of Thought, which may be stated as follows:

1. The Law of Identity. Whatever is, is.

2. The Law of Contradiction. Nothing can both be and not be.

3. The Law of Excluded Middle. Everything must either be

    or not be.

Though these laws when thus stated may seem absurdly obvious...I have found that students are seldom able to see at first their full meaning and importance.

Facilitating neo-intellectualism are of course 21st century societies’ persistence then insistence toward conditions, exceptions, arbitraries therefore egregious inconsistencies otherwise personalities’ propensities prerogatives, preferences as well juvenile fancies, adolescent whimsies or childish fantasies as evidences, arguments thus premises.

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Well sought per covetous infatuation, un-satiated the lust
Oh, what fuss the lost of time by respect, regard and trust
Disgusted by the patience, the reluctance to rightly negotiate
Prating instead, castrating o’er deathbed as disparities conflate 

Frailties abate not, rather one’s state of Self quite fraught
All a fright as the human lot mid rock and stone well caught
Fuck then roam, aft’ feast later moan, ergo fight on wet loam
The mud sanguine with blood per presumption’s syndrome

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.


Copyright © 2022 by D.C. Quillan Stone

Friday, January 21, 2022

QUI TACET DISSENTIRE VIDETUR... thus my ardent objection to QUI TACET CONSENTIRE VIDETUR...

QUI TACET DISSENTIRE VIDETUR... as I logically, consistently, ethically propose in my forthcoming book in stark contrast thus my ardent objection to the commonly known yet covetously presumptuous, arrogant QUI TACET CONSENTIRE VIDETUR.

To paraphrase in English the two Latin phrases, the former as "one's silence implies dissent", oppose to "one's silence implies consent" per the latter. So common and accepted is the latter, if to use a search engine for QUI TACET DISSENTIRE VIDETUR, the application tries to correct and provide QUI TACET CONSENTIRE VIDETUR. I intend to challenge and change that from the commonly acceptable to the commonly detestable.

I argue observably, logically, consistently therefore ethically; DISSENT always the assumption until CONSENT explicitly expressed. Consequently, this is problematic for those preferring political convenience and governmental expedience.

Consider these three installments found at the link below, hence included in my forthcoming 12th book Propositions, Problems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters...

No. 222 - Qui Tacet Dissentire Videtur
No. 223 - Qui Tacet Dissentire Videtur / 1st Reprise
No. 224 - Qui Tacet Dissentire Videtur / 2nd Reprise

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Thursday, January 13, 2022

Consider subscribing for FREE to my newly created Substack site, ergo as posted today...

My inaugural Substack piece, thus one perhaps two posted each week. Pieces to feature commentary, poetry and often installments from past books or (in this case) drafted for the forthcoming 12th book, 3rd of a trilogy entitled Propositions, Problems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters, to be published sometime mid 2022.

Proposition, Problem & Poem No. 211
Peculiarity, Uniqueness, Distinction
by D.C. Quillan Stone

As much the human specie possesses the peculiar or unique ability to reason among nonhuman, instinctive species, so simultaneously even inseparably possesses the constant prerogative and the consistent preference to consent or dissent therefore to accept or reject, to agree or disagree, to tolerate (suffer) or refuse, to continue or discontinue at the conclusive end of each and every reasoning sequence...


Saturday, January 8, 2022

All inquiries after truth is to proceed from the known to the unknown...

"Experience sufficiently instructs us that the proper order of advancement in all inquiries after truth is to proceed from the known to the unknown."

George Boole (1815-1864)

Friday, January 7, 2022

Vox populi vox Dei...

"Vox populi vox Dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government."

Edmund Sears Morgan (Yale professor, 1916-2013)

If Lenny Bruce was alive today...

"Everyday people are straying away from the CHURCH and going back to GOD." --- Lenny Bruce (1925-1966)

If he was alive today...

"Everyday people are straying away from SCIENCE and going back to LOGIC." --- if Lenny Bruce posted a comment on Facebook.

"Everyday people are straying away from GOVERNMENTALISM and POLITICS and going back to INDIVIDUALISM and TRUTH." --- if Lenny Bruce posted a video on YouTube.

"Everyday people are straying away from INCONSISTENCY, ARBITRARINESS thus PRESUMPTION and going back to CONSISTENCY, ETHIC thus PRINCIPLE." --- if Lenny Bruce posted a tweet on Twitter.

I wonder, would he have judged people today too optimistically? For American society have not merely regressed to 1960s but pre-Enlightenment, for the Galileos and Lenny Bruces of today are slandered, threatened, removed, canceled, banned, discredited, ruined hence forever silenced.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.


Wednesday, January 5, 2022

12th Book on Ability to Reason, Right to Consent; Proposition, Problem & Poem No. 257

Most likely to be published later this summer of 2022, my 12th book entitled appropriately; Propositions, Problems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing, and front cover a slightly modified yet appropriate version of the 10th and 11th books...



PROPOSITION, PROBLEM & POEM No. 257

~ Of Propositions and Problems ~

Of propositions and problems there are—to comprehend the matter in outline—three divisions; for some are ethical propositions, some are on natural science, while some are logical.

Aristotle (384-322 BC), Organon / Topica, Book I, Chapter 14

Interpolated among many comments private or public as well the latest two books and this, are repetitive usages of similar Aristotelian-esque sequences of adverbs; Observably (notably, determinably, etc), Logically thus Consistently, Ethically and/or Sustainably. This is the nature of consciousness, reason therefore discovery, evolvement towards all things scientific, economic, social, psychological, personal, moral and more, or to simply put, the proper discovery of all things.

Contrary to discovery thus evolvement would be latency then devolvement per opposite adverbs as Imaginably or Fantastically, Randomly or Arbitrarily, Preferentially, Covetously, Presumptuously and/or Arrogantly, towards of course all things unscientific, noneconomic, nonsocial, pathological, impersonal, immoral and more.

To reverse engineer (if you will) regarding anything considered ethical or as ethic, consistency would be paramount to observe then determine, else something other than ethical, that is to say, non-ethical perhaps unethical. To reverse engineer further per consistency as paramount, then preceding would be logical determination upon observation by deducing to particulars, inducing to universals, else and once again something other than ethical, that is to say, non-ethical perhaps unethical.

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To live by the violent blade, bullet, bomb, now the drone
Palms o’er bogarted hearts, thus the departed `low tombstones
To live by the politician’s violent pen, paper, equally the laws
Zen’ed by covetous souls, thus dire effects by desired cause 

To live by another’s leave, forced to cleave, later to bereave
Assailing agitprop as prevailing backdrop so cleverly weaved
To breathe the toxicity `tween the complicity and duplicity
Inflating the whimsy as fancied infinity till end of the elasticity

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.


Copyright © 2022 by D.C. Quillan Stone

Sunday, January 2, 2022

12th Book on Ability to Reason, Right to Consent; Proposition, Problem & Poem No. 249

Most likely to be published later this summer of 2022, my 12th book entitled appropriately; Propositions, Problems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing, and front cover a slightly modified yet appropriate version of the 10th and 11th books...



PROPOSITION, PROBLEM & POEM No. 249

~ The Business of Science ~

It is to be remembered that it is the business of science not to create laws, but to discover them. 

George Boole (1815-1864) 

Yet contrary to the obvious, 21st century minds proceed to imagine, invent, innovate any-ocracy, any-ism even any-ology as though equaling even superseding nature’s laws. And so goes the declination into the intellectual abyss, dismissing logic the science of sciences, as well discarding consistency the determination of the aforesaid, while covetously desiring the convenience and expedience, hence covetously presuming the coercive intervention, imposition, intrusion upon others by force governmental or otherwise, of course towards immediate satiation.

Boole elaborated further in his 1854 book An Investigation of The Laws of Thought. 

We do not originate the constitution of our own minds, greatly as it may be in our power to modify their character. And as the laws of the human intellect do not depend upon our will, so the forms of the science, of which they constitute the basis, are in all essential regards independent of individual choice.

Expectantly, not as the specie consciously reasonable in the Maker’s image, after the Creator’s likeness (see Proem & Poem No. 191), rather as species unconsciously instinctive liken beasts in fields, humanity descends to inhumanity, existing solely for the feast, fuck and fight, hence insisting covetously, persisting wantonly and subsisting presumptuously, arrogantly, violently.

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Surround the soul with the immaculate scarlet cord, the one hope
Per slippery slope all now slide, else mid darkened hallways to grope
Hands on walls, feeling the graffiti left by histories of cruelties, wars
Tyrannies and more, thus scores of corpses for cronies then whores

Inked in gore and gray glories, downing bodies by rapier
Mostly jury of one, all wrote and told, whether by paper
Penned or typewritten the odd capers, printed, later aired
Caressed then finessed as most would, with a bit of flair

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.


Copyright © 2022 by D.C. Quillan Stone