Ben Douglass Digest

FIRST DAY: Big Bang! SECOND DAY: Great Expansion. THIRD DAY: Universe, nebulae, galaxies, stars, planets, moons, Birthed into the emptiness of spacetime. FOURTH DAY: Primordial Soup bubbled, gurgled, snapped, crackled, And popped on lucky orbiting rocks. FIFTH DAY: Little Blue Dot in darkest corner of Milky Way, Waited patiently for its turn (eternity to the 10th power?). SIXTH DAY: Millions, billions, trillions of Asteroids with magical frozen water showered the Blue Dot, And co-mingled with the Hot Soup. SEVENTH DAY: Life started on its gruesome & harrowing journey. 

[ Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus . Wittgenstein, Ludwig. New York: Cosimo Classics. 2009. 109 pages. ISBN: 978-1-61640-237-2] From The Back Cover : Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was hugely influential on 20th-century philosophy, and here in his manuscript, he constructs a series of carefully and precisely numbered propositions on the relationship between language, logic, and reality, using a numbering system to show nested relationships between the propositions. Considered one of the major recent works of philosophy - a reputation enhanced, undoubtedly, by Bertrand Russell's glowing introduction - this edition is a reproduction of the translation by C.K. Ogden, first published in 1922, for which Wittgenstein himself assisted in the preparation of the English-language manuscript.  Students of philosophy and those fascinated by the history of ideas will want a copy of this essential volume. From The Introduction : In order to understand Mr. Wittgenstein's b