“The story ‘Good Old Neon’ invokes two conundrums from mathematical logic, the Berry and Russell paradoxes, to describe a psychological double bind that the narrator calls the ‘fraudulence paradox.” — James Ryerson Copy Share Image
“One of the few giveaways in their exchange that Wallace is also a goofy college kid is that he alludes to Descartes as ‘Monsieur… — James Ryerson Copy Share Image
“The story ‘Good Old Neon’ invokes two conundrums from mathematical logic, the Berry and Russell paradoxes, to describe a psychological double bind that the… — James Ryerson Copy Share Image
“Unlike logical modality and plain-old physical modality, situational physical modality, he observed, is not eternal and unchanging but rather highly sensitive to details of… — James Ryerson Copy Share Image
“Investigations “eliminated solipsism but not the horror.” The only difference between this new predicament and that of the Tractatus was that rather than being… — James Ryerson Copy Share Image
“He was perpetually on guard against the ways that abstract thinking (especially thinking about your own thinking) can draw you away from something more… — James Ryerson Copy Share Image
