made a sampler - not of a slogan, admittedly, but still something I can believe in. It made a very nice pair of afternoons - I sat out on my porch in the sunshine and our nice cool, 27C weather and had a pretend Victorian convalescence.The sampler shows a formal way of writing a kind of logical operation known as modus tollens, followed by its proof by truth table. The embroidery is not quite finished; I'm going to sew in 'modus tollens' at the bottom but I made too many mistakes trying to write it out with the erasable fabric pen so I had to wash the fabric and let it dry before I could try again, but you get the main idea.
The little sideways horseshoe indicates a conditional statement and means 'if...then'. The tilda means 'not'. The three dots in the form of a triangle mean 'therefore'. So the top part reads '1. If P then Q; 2. not Q; therefore not P'. Then the truth table lines up all the possible truth values for the whole thing. In non-modal logic, statements can be only true or false but not both and not undertermined. Anyhow, it shows that a conditional is false when the antecedent (in this case P) is true and the consequent (in this case Q) is false.
So now I have my own embroidered version of a fundamental logical truth about the world. That makes me happy. I plan to make one for modus ponens next. Thanks, Kate, for the suggestion!
You're amazing.
ReplyDeleteThat's inspired! And I'm flattered you acted upon my suggestion.
ReplyDeleteI think I'm going to have to make one now.I don't imagine I'll come up with anything so clever or logical, but I have a few slogans in mind.
Your stitching is lovely and neat although the photo is a little out of focus & I can only make out the french-knots clearly.
I'm glad it helped ease things a little. I had a minor crisis on my hands last week and I found blanket-stitching my way through 2 evenings of angst and frustration to be very calming.
May the sampler(s) have pride of place in your new abode!
K.x
Kate - It was a very good suggestion! Formal logic is so much less messy than real life. That's not such a good way to put it - formal logic is real, too. Less messy than the social part of life, I suppose, is what I mean. So, it was nice to have something that I was in charge of and that made sense!
ReplyDeleteLucy - you're going to turn my head! Thank you.
I really do love this craft and think you could market it to disillusioned hipsters somehow. I, for one, would buy it in a sleek frame.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I do actually sell some of my crafty things - my current hometown is craft central and a host to quite a few national craft and artisan fairs. This one will have to wait to be marketed, though; my visa for grad school expressly forbids me from being self-employed or conducting a business while in the UK. It's a pity because the bits of extra money it brings in are always welcome.
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