Indeed! I've read E is a way to honor Apollo, or the miracle that you exist.
My explanation is that the word "is" symbolizes the description of a real thing by a model. For example, if you see a bird, you assign visual sensual information to the category of flying animal. Understanding the value and limitations of mental models is a sign of wisdom.
Yeah! I have no idea what it meant to the Greeks, either; but for myself, I like to interpret it as the Greek numeral 5, since 5 is a circular number (that is, a number that, if you square it, ends in itself).
To me, this symbolizes circular time, eternal recurrence, reincarnation, the way that bodies can be ever-changing while the soul remains constant, etc.
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Date: 2023-10-01 08:12 am (UTC)As it was written in the Delphi oracle:
Know thyself
Nothing overmuch
Surety, then ruin
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Date: 2023-10-01 03:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-02 10:51 am (UTC)Indeed! I've read E is a way to honor Apollo, or the miracle that you exist.
My explanation is that the word "is" symbolizes the description of a real thing by a model. For example, if you see a bird, you assign visual sensual information to the category of flying animal. Understanding the value and limitations of mental models is a sign of wisdom.
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Date: 2023-10-02 01:23 pm (UTC)5×5=25
25×25=625
625×625=390625
(This process doesn't continue, but it does have the remarkable property that every time you do it, you add a digit at the end that will never change.)
To me, this symbolizes circular time, eternal recurrence, reincarnation, the way that bodies can be ever-changing while the soul remains constant, etc.