Re: Ping: dawn, some mvl questions
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 18:06:53 +0300
Message-ID: <e4sjth$btu$1_at_emma.aioe.org>
"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:xS5cg.10848$A26.266509_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
> Keith H Duggar wrote:
>
> > dawn wrote:
> >
> >>Not only that, but it is impossible to enumerate a set
> >>without the representation being a list.
> >
> > Is this a confusion between logical and physical again?
> > Regardless this also an example of begging the question
> > or a circular argument.
> It's not only confused. It's ridiculously stupid as if one could never
> enumerate a set by oberving a venn diagram, for instance.
e-nu-mer-ate () v.t. <-at-ed, -at-ing>
- to name one by one; specify as in a list: to enumerate the flaws in a theory.
Please use Venn diagram for enumerating the odd numbers.
> >>Retaining the order of something represented as a list
> >>might just provide ongoing information never verbalized.
> >>If a user lists something in an order, but we have defined
> >>it as a set because there has been no overt statement of
> >>the meaning of the order, might be losing information?
> >>Cheers! --dawn
> Again, what stupid nonsense! The whole point of the information
> principle is to avoid implicit information because humans have very poor
> skills for separating implicit information from useless noise -- as Dawn
> herself so clearly demonstrates ever time she posts.
> If order is important, use explicit values to communicate and manipulate
> that order. Duh!
It might be a lot more easyer for a user to just enter a list. Received on Mon May 22 2006 - 17:06:53 CEST