Re: o-grade thoughts

From: tgpedersen
Message: 45935
Date: 2006-09-04

> >> Brian and I asked for _evidence_, not for a preconceived
> >> opinion.
>
> > I don't think of reasoning from semantics as preconceived
> > opinion.
>
> Whether it is or not, it isn't *evidence* of anything except
> the mental processes of the reasoner.
>

I never understood why you and Piotr wanted me to prove a
definition.



> > 'Serial repetition' and 'simultaneous plurality' both
> > denote a *set*, ie a collective of several occurrences,
> > which may be sequential or simultaneous among themselves.
>
> If you want to play quasi-mathematical games, I'll point out
> that mathematicians are careful to distinguish tuples from
> (multi)sets.

I'm afraid all the practical experience I have with this is
from trying to build my own copy of Doug Lenat's Eurisko
program, where sets and tuples were LISP lists


Torsten