{"id":11855,"date":"2010-02-07T06:32:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T06:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/07\/a-coherent-representing-of-the-incoherent\/"},"modified":"2010-02-07T06:32:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T06:32:04","slug":"a-coherent-representing-of-the-incoherent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/07\/a-coherent-representing-of-the-incoherent\/","title":{"rendered":"A Coherent Representing of the Incoherent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01287771959a970c-pi\" style=\"FLOAT: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Drawinghands\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01287771959a970c \" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01287771959a970c-500wi\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> <font face=\"Georgia\">It is broadly logically impossible that there be a hand that both draws itself and is drawn by itself.&#0160; So what the Escher print represents is B-L impossible, and in this sense &#39;incoherent&#39;&#0160; and &#39;unintelligible.&#39;&#0160; But the Escher drawing itself is coherent and intelligible as a representation.&#0160; And so we can say that we understand the drawing while also saying that we do not understand that which is depicted in the drawing.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">This post is a comment <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2010\/02\/negative-and-positive-trinitarian-mysterianism-.html?cid=6a010535ce1cf6970c0120a86f20ca970b#comment-6a010535ce1cf6970c0120a86f20ca970b\"><font face=\"Georgia\">on a comment.<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is broadly logically impossible that there be a hand that both draws itself and is drawn by itself.&#0160; So what the Escher print represents is B-L impossible, and in this sense &#39;incoherent&#39;&#0160; and &#39;unintelligible.&#39;&#0160; But the Escher drawing itself is coherent and intelligible as a representation.&#0160; And so we can say that we understand &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/07\/a-coherent-representing-of-the-incoherent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Coherent Representing of the Incoherent&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[405,288],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-representation","category-trinity-and-incarnation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}