Day Without
Logic



Symbol of the Dec. 1
"Day Without Art"

This resembles the following symbol,
due to logician Charles Sanders Peirce,
of the logic of binary opposition:



(For futher details on the role
of this symbol in logic, see
Chinese Jar Revisited.)

On this, International Women's Day,
we might also consider the
widely quoted thoughts on logic of
Harvard professor Barbara Johnson:



Detail:



"Instead of a simple 'either/or' structure,
deconstruction attempts to elaborate a discourse
that says neither "either/or", nor "both/and"
nor even "neither/nor", while at the same time
not totally abandoning these logics either."

It may also be of interest on
International Women's Day
that in the "box style" I Ching
(suggested by a remark of
Jungian analyst
Marie-Louise von Franz)
the symbol


 
denotes
Hexagram 2,
The Receptive.