Re: [-empyre-] potential of code..

[Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>]

Could you explain what you mean by "carry" -

What is a set of structures?

How can a set "carry logic"?

Etc. - confused here.

- Alan

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Henry Warwick wrote:

> --- Yvonne Martinsson <yvonne@freewheelin.nu> wrote:
> >
> > Every structure carries the logic of absence, the
> > void; matter -
> > anti-matter, you know the drill.
>
> The above is self refuting.
>
> Set Theory.
>
> {
> set of all structures
>
> (set of structures that carry logic)
> (set of structures that don't carry logic)
> (set of structures who's carrying capacity is
> unknowable)
>
> }
>
> Therefore there are some structures that may or may
> not carry logic. Per: Entia non sunt multiplicanda
> praeter necessitatem, one should not assume that the
> set of structures of unknown capacity is an empty set,
> any more than one should assume that the set of
> structures that don't carry logic has any members.
>
> So, no, not every structure carries the logic of
> absence, or void, or antimatter or anything, really,
> as it may be a structure from a set of structures
> who's logical carrying ability is either absent or
> unknown or unknowable.
>
> Hence, it is unreasonable to assume that all
> structures carry any given logic.
>
> I would also go further: Since logical statements are
> a tiny subset of all possible statements, it is
> actually much more likely that there are many more
> structures that are completely useless and meaningless
> than there are structures that can carry a given
> logic.
>
> best,
>
> HW
>
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>
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