{"id":61683,"date":"2018-12-21T18:51:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T18:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=61683"},"modified":"2018-12-21T18:51:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T18:51:09","slug":"on-the-felicities-of-graph-based-game-board-design-thirteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=61683","title":{"rendered":"On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: thirteen"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — the Trinity and National Security, Game Boards and Mathematics, Japanese wave patterns, Maestro Harding on the interconnectedness of “all branches of human knowledge and curiosity, not just music” — plus Blues Clues at the tail end ]
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Not only have the last couple of days been riotous in Washington, with more news to track than I have eyes to see, but today, still reeling under the weight of Mattis<\/strong>‘ resignation, McConnell<\/strong>‘s statement in support and other matters, I found myself with a richesse <\/em>of board-game and graph-related delights.<\/p>\n

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Trinitarian NatSec:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Followers of this searies will be familiar with the Trinitarian diagram juxtaposed here with its equivalents from classical Kabballah and Oronce Fine:<\/p>\n

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That little triptych is from my religion and games avenues of interest, but of course I’m also interested in matters of national security, as befits Zenpundit, the strategy & creativity blog. You can imagine my surprise and delight, then, in coming across a natsec version of the trinity diagram, in a tweet from Jon Askonas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Here’s my comparison:<\/p>\n

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My own attention was first drawn to the Trinitarian diagram as a result of reading Margaret Masterman<\/strong>‘s brilliant cross-disciplinary work, “Theism as a Scientific Hypothesis”, which ran in four parts in a somewhat obscure and difficult to find journal, Theoria to Theory, Vol 1, 1-4, 1966-67.<\/p>\n

See:<\/p>\n

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  • Margaret Masterman, George Boole and the Holy Trinity<\/a>\n
  • \nMargaret Masterman’s “Theism as a Scientific Hypothesis”<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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    Game Boards and Mathematics:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    I could hardly fail to be intrigued by Calli Wright<\/strong>‘s piece titled The Big List of Board Games that Inspire Mathematical Thinking<\/a>, eh? And look, the first game they show is a graph-based board game, Achi<\/strong>:<\/p>\n