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um let me before I ask you to make out the cards let me get into um the kind of introductory presentation that I wanted to make of course is on the nature of creativity but approached philosophically there are books on that list for instance that are psychology of creativity sum psychoanalytic approaches to the nature of creativity um this is philosophical and in being philosophical it I was going to say transcends but really is fully immersed in all of the different kinds of creativity um one of the questions that you'll be hearing about in a minute is how creativity and science differs or resembles creativity in Fine Arts or and and architecture is always been the in between between science and and the Fine Arts uh so that has its own Niche its own entry into it but philosophy tries to talk in a broader way which makes it uh much much more useless until you know how to apply it but and that's what you can do for your own selves better than I can do for you uh so...

PROFESSOR: OK. Before we get started, I'd like to deal with a small matter of some unpleasantness. The class is sort of like a football game. When there's two minutes to go, you shoot off a pistol. But when there are two meetings to go until we have the quiz, we shoot off a pistol to wake you up. We're scheduled to have a quiz on October 6. And even though October seems far away when you're still in September, that is going to be a week from this coming Thursday. So if you have problems that you're working on, try to get them to me on Thursday, or just come slide them under my office door, if I'm not in. And I'll have them back for you on this coming Tuesday. The way the material has played out is that we're really at a nice, convenient juncture between one chunk of interconnected material moving on to another. So I think the first quiz we'll confine to two-dimensional symmetry. And beginning in about two minutes flat, we'll begin t...