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...y and artistic avant-garde movement that he called “paradoxism”, because I received some books and papers dealing with it in order to review them for the German journal “Zentralblatt fár Mathematik”. It was an inspired connection he made between literature/arts and science, philosophy....

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...ction. It was a surprise for me when in 1995 I received a manuscript from the mathematician, experimental writer and innovative painter Florentin Sm... ...al writer and innovative painter Florentin Smarandache, especially because the treated subject was of philosophy - revealing paradoxes - and logics. ... ...as of philosophy - revealing paradoxes - and logics. He had generalized the fuzzy logic, and introduced two new concepts: a) “neutrosophy” – stud... ...atic population. Nihilism, spread out after Turgeniev's "Parents and children" novel in 1862 as an absolute negation, denies everything, theref... ... is the time variable, k is a constant depending on unemployment rate and children's percent in the population. Philosophy is an ideational puz... ...perimental law of Murphy: constants aren't, variables won't. Try to save what can't be saved! It's easy to forget something important, bu...