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Re: A Point on Understanding
Posted:
Jan 1, 2013 6:40 PM
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On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 13:28:22 -0700, Joe Niederberger
<niederberger@comcast.net> wrote:
> Your wrongness has to do with your view that one perspective exhausts
> the subject. You do not have a hairy body because you are mammal, though
> some people easily fall into the trap of thinking that way. Addition and
> multiplication on N thru C are not what they are because those things
> are classified with many disparate algebraic sructures as ringoids,
> either. Ringoid theory will tell you many things about those structures,
> but not everything about some particular structure.
This is especially so since ringoids were not invented to explain things
about the integers, the rationals, or the reals, but to isolate some of
their properties for further study.
In so doing, he reverses what there is to find of causality in the
situation.
- --Lou Talman
Department of Mathematical & Computer Sciences
Metropolitan State University of Denver
<http://rowdy.msudenver.edu/~talmanl>
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