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Re: A Point on Understanding
Posted:
Jan 1, 2013 8:00 PM
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On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Louis Talman <talmanl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 13:28:22 -0700, Joe Niederberger
> <niederberger@comcast.net> wrote:
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>> Ringoid theory will tell you many things about those structures, but not
>> everything about some particular structure.
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> 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.
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> In so doing, he reverses what there is to find of causality in the
> situation.
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Development over time does not necessarily reflect the logical order or otherwise logical structure of things. To think so is a mistake.
And what what I wrote in
"Re: A Point on Understanding"
http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=7948471
is relevant here.
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