The Tick-Tock Tractatus. By Michael Peter Garofalo. Speaking of Time: The Investigations.

"This book offers a defense of the tensed theory of time, a critique of the New Theory of Reference, and an argument that simultaneity is absolute. Although Smith rejects ordinary language philosophy, he shows how it is possible to argue from the nature of language to the nature of reality. Specifically, he argues that semantic properties of tensed sentences are best explained by the hypothesis that they ascribe to events temporal properties of futurity, presentness, or pastness and do not merely ascribe relations of earlier than or simultaneity. He criticizes the New Theory of Reference, which holds that "now" refers directly to a time and does not ascribe the property of presentness. Smith does not adopt the old or Fregean theory of reference but develops a third alternative, based on his detailed theory of de re and de dicto propositions and a theory of cognitive significance. He concludes the book with a lengthy critique of Einstein's theory of time. Smith offers a positive argument for absolute simultaneity based on his theory that all propositions exist in time. He shows how Einstein's relativist temporal concepts are reducible to a conjunction of absolutist temporal concepts and relativist nontemporal concepts of the observable behavior of light rays, rigid bodies, and the like."

3.2.1
BU2652

Precious Flowers in the Sky

3.2.2
BU3338
Truths about the Future?

Aristotle's Sea Battle

Problem of Future Contingents

Contingency

Reading Wittgenstein 1975-

5.4
BU2590
Counting the Moons Over La Push

Four Days in Grayland

Moon Lore

La Push, Washington

Growth is time embodied.

The Psychology of Human Temprality
by David Gilden, 2025

8.4.1
Title

Quintain Poetry

Reading Wittgenstein 1975-

BU3431

9.3.1
Did the Demons Listen

Personification in Poetry

9.3.2
Title

Tick-Tock Tractatus

Gushen Grove Sonnets

BU3102

9.3.3

"I have written down all these thoughts as remarks, short
paragraphs, sometimes in longer chains about the same
subject, sometimes jumping, in a sudden change, from
one area to another."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, Preface

"A Man may make a Remark---
In itself ---
A quiet thing
That may furnish
The Fuse unto a Spark

In dormant nature--- lain ---
Let us deport --- with skill ---
Let us discourse --- with care ---
Powder exists in Charcoal ---
Before it exists in Fire."

- Emily Dickinson, ED#952

Emily Dickinson, 1860-1886, ED#952

Reading Wittgenstein 1975-

Remarks in Wittgenstein's Style

Poetry and Philosophy

Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language.
By John R. Searle, 1969.

10.2
Title

"The force of silence is that of a dying echo of language.
It is possible to love silently,
but perhaps only up to a point.
Authentic speechlessness comes with death.
To die is to stop chattering."

- George Steiner, The Poetry of Thought

Time, Metaphor and Language. By Sarah E. Duffy, 1993.

Through the Language Glass:
How the World Looks Different in Other Languages
By Guy Deutscher, 2010.

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language.
By Michael Morris, 2006.

Philosophy of Time. By Sean Edna Power, 2021.

Time Explained: Experience, Consciousness and Relativity.
By Alan Bennett, 2026.

Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy. By Ian Hacking, 1975.

The Philosophy of Time. Edited by Robin le Poidevin, 1993.

Thinking in Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson.
By Suzanne Guerlac, 2006.

The Tensed Theory of Time: A Critical Examination.
By William Lane Craig, 2000.

The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Time.
Edited by Craig Callender, 2013.

A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time.
By Adrian Bardon, 2024.

A Companion to the Philosophy of Time.
Edited by Heather Dyke, Blackwell, 2015.

An Introduction to the Philosopy of Time.
By Sam Baron and Kristie Miller, 2018.

Time and Philosophy: A History of Continental Thought.
By John McCumber, 2011.

Out of Time: A Philosophy Study of Timelessness.
By Sam Baron and Kristie Miller, 2022.

In Search of Time: The History, Physics and Philosopy of Time.
By Dan Falk, 2010.

11.2
Title

"For countless mortals music, however vaguely,
comes closer than any other felt presence to inferring,
to forecasting the possible reality of transcendence.
of an encounter with the numinous, with the
supernatural as these lie beyond empirical reach."

- George Steiner, The Poetry of Thought

12.2
Title

13.2
Title

14.2
Title

15.6
Title

Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn 1962

Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

16.2
Title

Preface

Miscellaneous Notes

I had
a habit of smoking
in my cold garage
in a well-lit corner
reading Wittgenstein's Remarks, entranced.

Were they remarks, analogies, descriptions?
Were they analogies, asides, staged discussions?
Were they intellectual artillery against an enemy?
Were they charms that attracted followers?
Were they Results, Propositions, Rules?

Where are the Places in his living cosmos ...
Like Norway, Vienna, Cambridge? No!

Dismantle, Reassemble, Restructure
Point out, Listen attentively, Touch things gently
Untangle yourself from Essences
Explore the Grammar of Consciousness
Unpeel the Onion Layers: [Smells so Fresh]

Just juggling gems of logical arguments with himself,
Drowning at times in the depths of Socratic despair,
Hanging on, Fighting through, a soldier of Duty to the Death,
Never publishing again after 1922, Hesitant! Doubtful.
Always entangled in a lingering linguistic mess.

Discovering his Remarks and compact essays,
On a variety of intriguing matters and themes,
Captivated a young graduate student like me,
In those past 1975 days and in decades beyond it seemed.
The compactness, the brevity, the focused attention,

The questioning then answering, the courage then the faltering,
The clarity opening up suddenly, then drowning in a Wordy Sea.
A bluntness, directness, authoritarianism, and macho manly veteran style.
Slipping away as his last days faded,
and a few students took up his crusades.
His later style wandered in the nettles of philosophical poetry.

Anyone stung by the bees of stupidity, received no mercy from he.
But the studious and scholarly few in his Cambridge classes,
Like Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe,
Helped us understand this German-English speaking thinker's mind.
But he thought himself that he failed miserably.

Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe

Georg Herick Von Wright

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

Index to Bundled Up Quintains Related to Time:

# 2504, 2505, 2509, 2513, 2516, 2522, 2547, 2583,
# 2590, 2597, 2617, 2622, 2623, 2643, 2648, 2649
# 2652, 2663,2685, 2727, 2728, 2733, 2739, 2757
# 2767, 2768, 2769, 2831, 2858, 2864, 2866, 2872, 2890, 2891
# 2891, 2892, 2932, 2988, 2995, 3007, 3012, 3013, 3073
# 3102, 3103, 3120, 3127, 3155
# 3233, 3269, 3316, 3323, 3338, 3431, 3438, 3452, 3481

The Tick-Tock Tractatus by Mike Garofalo

Index to Bundled Up Quintains Related to Wittgenstein:

#154, 155, 160, 233, 544, 846, 854, 1294, 1665, 1714, 2178
# 2427, 2501, 2643, 2645, 2654, 2675, 2687, 2688, 2723, 2730
# 2733, 2735, 2760, 2751, 2757, 2788, 2793, 2796, 2800, 2806
# 2808, 2854, 2850, 2855, 2863, 2864, 2876, 2920,
# 2928, 2935, 2983, 2989

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Quintains, Tankas, Pentastichs, and Onions

Original Quintain Poetry By Mike Garofalo

Bundled Up, Volume 1
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Quintain Poems 1,000 - 1,500

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Poetry by Michael P. Garofalo

25 Steps and Beyond: Collected Works

At the Edges of the West
Highway 101 and Hwy 1

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Cuttings: Haiku, Senryu, Brief Poems

At the Edges of the Fertile West
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Pulling Onions

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Definitions, Examples

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Michael Peter Garofalo (1946-) grew up in East Los Angeles,
raised well by my parents June and Big Mike, was educated
in Catholic Schools, lived with two other brothers, graduated
(B.A., M.S.) from local universities.

Married Blanche Karen Eubanks, served in the US Air Force,
worked in and managed many City and Los Angeles County
Public Libraries, raised two children, socialized, traveled,
and learned. Retired as the Regional Administrator, East
Region, Los Angeles County Public Library in 1998.

We moved to a rural 5 acre property in Red Bluff, in the
North Sacramento Valley, CA. Webmaster since 1998.
Worked part-time for the Corning School District
(Technology and Media Services Manager, District
Librarian, Grant Writer, Webmaster); and as a yoga,
Taijiquan, and fitness club instructor until 2016.
Traveled extensively in Northern California,
Oregon, and Washington.

We both retired, and we moved to Vancouver, WA, in 2017.
Currently in 2025: reading, writing, gardening, harmonica
playing, home chores, yurt camping, exercise, traveling
in the Northwest, web publishing, family events, poetry
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