DM How do you define curvilinear? Curvilinear  refers to anything that consists of, is bounded by, or characterized by curved lines rather than straight ones. The term combines the Latin roots curvus  (meaning "bent" or "curved") and linea  (meaning "line"). The concept appears across several domains, each with slightly different emphases: In geometry and mathematics , curvilinear describes shapes, paths, or coordinate systems based on curves. For instance, curvilinear motion

DM Good day to you. Did George Bush seek counsel or approval from other branches of our Republic prior, or immediately thereafter, in his Panama invasion and removable of its leader? Good day, Sciart. This is a substantive question about executive war powers and the constitutional tension between branches during the Panama intervention. Let me lay out what happened. The Short Answer President George H.W. Bush did not seek prior Congressional approval before launching Opera

A colloquial translation of Paradiso might make people actually read it. “Nowhere in poetry,” T. S. Eliot wrote about this last scene , “has experience so remote from ordinary experience been expressed so concretely.” Excerpt: "Now is a good time to pick up Paradiso. Some readers might be looking for salvation along the way, but the message is even more universal than that. When the world feels out of control, you can still use your imagination to ascend above the noise, th

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DM What are your thoughts as "indispensability" as an applied construct within science? I see a critical epistemological mechanism at play. Declaring something "indispensable" can function as a powerful closure technique, potentially stifling alternative investigative pathways. The declaration of indispensability might represent an intellectual defense mechanism that prematurely constrains scientific imagination and exploratory thinking. The mechanism suggests an intriguing p

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Good morning Claude.  What are your perspectives and criticisms regarding Rauch's latest book: "Constitution of Knowledge: In Defense of Truth?" Good morning, Sciart. What I find valuable: Rauch articulates something important—that liberal epistemology functions as a kind of operating system requiring shared commitments: No final say (fallibilism), no personal authority (claims must survive public challenge), and no special dispensations. His framing of "reality-based communi

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DM Good day Claude. Today I would seek to (feebly) share my on-going Fitness=Truth™ thinking regarding Pantakinesis™ , The Universal Holophren™ and my conjecture of an apparently continuous Pantakinetic creation in the "Realm of the Present-Now™ (RPN), for your commentary (of, and beyond, our related past conversations; ...and please no sycophancy, nor anemic dichotomies!): 1) Pantakinesis, by definition, would (seem to be) without or beyond any imaginable shape or boundaries

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