When I heard Mr. Nimoy had died, I felt like a part of my life had ended. Almost impossible to overstate the man's influence on me in so many ways. I'll just mention awakening my interest in logic, and logical systems. Just that alone has been huge for me, and equally as important, the recognition of what logic cannot do. There's always going to be corrupt and/or incomplete information, or people who fall in love with a particular narrative and defend it against all comers. A lot of people assume logic began and ended with Aristotle; it didn't. There's been a systematic system of multi-valued logic since the 1930s. There's been continuous sets theory, better known as "fuzzy" logic, since 1979. In college I worked as a data processor for a professor who employed something called the semantic differential, by with various concepts could be weighted and mapped spatially in three dimensions. I could go on and on, but I'll just have to stop before I become even more maudlin. Mr. Nimoy will be missed.
JAMES