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Minos: In predicate (2), you speak of Ôany transversalÕ: a little while ago, you spoke of Ôevery exterior angle.Õ Do you make any distinction between ÔanyÕ and ÔeveryÕ? Euclid: Where the things spoken of are limited in number, I use ÔeveryÕ; where infinite, I use ÔanyÕ in order to bring the idea within the grasp of our finite intellects. For instance, you may talk of Ôevery grain of sand in the worldÕ: there are, no doubt, what country-folk would call Ôa good fewÕ of them, but still the number is limited, and the mind can just grasp the idea. But if you tell me that Ôevery cubic inch of Space contains eight cubic half-inches,Õ my mind is unable to form a distinct conception of the subject of your Proposition: you would convey the same truth, and in a form I could grasp, by saying Ôany cubic inch.Õ Charles L. Dodgson [= Lewis Carroll]: Euclid and his modern rivals. London: Macmillan, 1879. [Second edition, 1885, p. 25.] “That’s another thing we’ve learned from your Nation,” said Mein Herr, “map-making. But we’ve carried it much further than you. What do you consider the largest map that would be really useful?” “About six inches to the mile.” “Only six inches!” exclaimed Mein Herr. “We very soon got to six yards to the mile. Then we tried a hundred yards to the mile. And then came the grandest idea of all! We actually made a map of the country, on the scale of a mile to the mile!” ”Have you used it much?” I enquired. “It has never been spread out, yet,” said Mein Herr: “the farmers objected: they said it would cover the whole country, and shut out the sunlight! So we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it does nearly as well." Lewis Carroll: Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, 1893. Chapter XI: The Man in the Moon. Observations from Thomas Dreher Robert Smithson confronteert Carroll's kaart van een stuk oceaan ("where a map contains `nothing«") met deze kaart "where a map contains `everything«".32 Die `Nichts« und `Alles« umfassenden Karten verbinden sich in Smithsons Gedankenwelt mit "Pascal«s `fearful sphere«", deren "center...everywhere and nowhere" zu finden ist.33 Cf. "die Erfahrung der Welt als begrenztes Ganzes". Cf. het probleem van propositional attitudes op basis van Carnap's intensies (mogelijke werelden als modellen). Cf. concept art. 30 Smithson 1979, S.9. Beide kehren bei den englischen Mitgliedern von Art & Language wieder: Atkinson/Baldwin 1967a, o. P. (Kap. "Air-Show"); Atkinson/Baldwin 1996a. 31 Carroll/Gardner 1962, S.55ff.; Woollcott 1998, S.556f., 683. [Nachtrag: Bianchi/Folie 1997, S.77f.,92; S.-Sturm (2000), S.158ff., Cover (Abb. von Henry Holidays Illustration von "a perfect and absolute blank" in "The Hunting of the Snark").] 32 Smithson 1979, S.77. 33 Smithson 1966, S.28, 30. Smithson zitiert in Smithson 1979, S.25, 67, 73 einen Satz Blaise Pascals ohne Quellenangabe, der sich im franzšsischen Original in Brunschvicg 1965, S.73 finden lŠ§t: ÇC«est une sph�re infinie dont le centre est partout, la circonfŽrence nulle part.È Aus der Art seines Zitierens ergibt sich, da§ es sich um eine †bernahme aus Jorge Luis Borges« "The Fearful Sphere of Pascal" (In: Borges 1964, S.189-192. Diese Ausgabe befand sich nach Valentin Tatranskys Nachla§-Inventar in zwei Exemplaren in Smithsons Bibliothek, in: Gilchrist/Lingwood 1993, S.250) handelt. Vgl. Smithson 1969/1970 Ÿber Pascal und Borges zu Dennis Wheeler in Tsai 1991, S.106 und Ÿber Carroll in Smithson 1979, S.17f., 76f. "Wir kšnnen also in der Logik nicht sagen: Das und das gibt es in der Welt, jenes nicht. Das wŸrde nŠmlich scheinbar voraussetzen, da§ wir gewisse Mšglichkeiten ausschlie§en und dies kann nicht der Fall sein, da sonst die Logik Ÿber die Grenzen der Welt hinaus mŸ§te: wenn sie nŠmlich diese Grenzen auch von der anderen Seite betrachten kšnnte." (Wittgenstein: Tractatus, 5.61.)   Manzoni: Sokkel van de Wereld (img)     Dieter Roth (ed.): ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR ALLES / REVIEW FOR EVERYTHING / TíMARIT FYRIR ALLT. Numbers 1-10A & 10B. Stuttgart/Mols/Basel: edition hansjörg mayer, Dieter Roth Verlag, 1975-1987. The review "... will not only accept & print everything but will accept & print everything by everybody". Contributions by Dieter Roth, J. Furnival, D.S. Houédard, K.B. Schäuffelen, F. Achleitner, H. Cibulka, D. Steiger, H. Eisendle, K. Renner, G. Brus, K. Riha, K. Bayer, B. Mattheus a.o. Covers designed by Uwe Lohrer.