Bach wrote fifteen three-part inventions. In this three-part Dialogue, the Tortoise and Achilles-the main fictional protagonists in the Dialogues-are "invented" by Zeno as in fact they were, to illustrate Zeno's paradoxes of motion. Very short, it simply gives the flavor of the Dialogues to come. Chapter I: The MU-puzzle. A simple formal system the MIL'-system is presented, and the reader is urged to work out a puzzle to gain familiarity with formal systems in general.
Two-Part Invention. Bach also wrote fifteen two-part inventions. This two-part Dialogue was written not by me, but by Lewis Carroll in The topic is the relation between reasoning, reasoning about reasoning, reasoning about reasoning about reasoning, and so on. It parallels, in a way, Zeno's paradoxes about the impossibility of motion, seeming to show, by using infinite regress, that reasoning is impossible. It is a beautiful paradox, and is referred to several times later in the book.
Apparently meaningless at first, its symbols are suddenly revealed to possess meaning by virtue of the form of the theorems they appear in.
This revelation is the first important insight into meaning: its deep connection to isomorphism. Various issues related to meaning are then discussed, such as truth, proof, symbol manipulation, and the elusive concept, "form". Sonata for Unaccompanied Achilles. A Dialogue which imitates the Bach Sonatas for unaccompanied violin.
In particular, Achilles is the only speaker, since it is a transcript of one end of a telephone call, at the far end of which is the Tortoise. Their conversation concerns the concepts of "figure" and "ground" in various. The Dialogue itself forms an example of the distinction, since Achilles' lines form a "figure", and the Tortoise's lines-implicit in Achilles' lines-form a "ground".
The distinction between figure and ground in art is compared to the distinction between theorems and nontheorems in formal systems. One of the paraphrases of the Theorem says, "For each record player there is a record which it cannot play. Some explicit references to the Art of the Fugue are made. The Dialogue itself conceals some acrostic tricks.
The preceding Dialogue is explicated to the extent it is possible at this stage. This leads back to the question of how and when symbols in a formal system acquire meaning.
The history of Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry is given, as an illustration of the elusive notion of "undefined terms". This leads to ideas about the consistency of different and possibly "rival" geometries. Through this discussion the notion of undefined terms is clarified, and the relation of undefined terms to perception and thought processes is considered.
Little Harmonic Labyrinth. This is based on the Bach organ piece by the same name. Please note that the tricks or techniques listed in this pdf are either fictional or claimed to work by its creator. We do not guarantee that these techniques will work for you.
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