Re: Objects and Relations
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:47:43 GMT
Message-ID: <j6uwh.1133$R71.15426_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
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> Oh, you!
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> Riddle:
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> Go to the store and buy a big bag of potatoes. Take
> the potatoes out of the bag one at a time. When
> you take the last potato out, does the bag disappear?
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> Poof!
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> Anything can represent anything. My nose represents the number 3.
> Two tickets to last year's Christie's Star Trek auction represent
> the Axiom of Choice. Heddy Lamar represents spread spectrum
> frequency hopping. Pepe Le Peu represents Charles Boyer.
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> The empty set represents nothing, if you want it to.
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:47:43 GMT
Message-ID: <j6uwh.1133$R71.15426_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
Marshall wrote:
> On Feb 1, 8:55 am, "Neo" <neo55..._at_hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>Since there is supposedly only one empty set, can it contain/reference itself? >> >>>No. >> >>Then why does Kieth's solution have them? >> >>( ( () ((b)) ) >> ( (()) ((o)) ) >> ( (()(())) ((b)) ) )
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>>>And WTF do you mean by "supposedly?" You think maybe there >>>are three different empty sets? >> >>No, almost the opposite. In my way of thinking, it is a contradiction >>to have a set of nothing. It is simply nothing, not a set of nothing.
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> Riddle:
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> Go to the store and buy a big bag of potatoes. Take
> the potatoes out of the bag one at a time. When
> you take the last potato out, does the bag disappear?
>
> Poof!
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>>According to wiki, "The empty set is not the same thing as nothing". >>Okey dohkie, then what represents nothing in set theory?
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> Anything can represent anything. My nose represents the number 3.
> Two tickets to last year's Christie's Star Trek auction represent
> the Axiom of Choice. Heddy Lamar represents spread spectrum
> frequency hopping. Pepe Le Peu represents Charles Boyer.
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> The empty set represents nothing, if you want it to.
Nuh uh! What's in the empty set represents nothing! Received on Thu Feb 01 2007 - 23:47:43 CET