Re: More on identifiers

On Jun 5, 1:25 pm, "Walter Mitty" <wami..._at_verizon.net> wrote:

> Consider two electrons. They both have the same mass, and they have the
> same charge. They might have opposite spins. But the minute we add a third
> electron, the spin of two of them is going to be identical. It seems that,
> on the surface at least, electrons do not have enough properties to carry
> identity.

If objects are really not distinguishable then why someone would want to artificially identify them? Wouldn’t be better to record just their quantity? Received on Fri Jun 05 2009 - 12:58:51 CEST