Re: OT (sets and stuff)

"Marshall" <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:1170782610.288107.62570_at_a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> On Feb 6, 8:34 am, "Neo" <neo55..._at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > Formal systems don't have elephants in them.
> >
> > I didn't get you irony. You didn't get my metaphor.
>
> I understood you just fine. Your "metaphor" indicated
> you don't understand the difference between the natural
> world and the abstract world. Many other of your
> posts have indicated the same thing.
>
>
> > One can empirically verify that the hierarchal model's method becomes
> > unsystematic when representing things with multiple parents.
>
> That's not empiricism.
>

I disagree. One *could* verify such an assertion empirically. One could also verify such an assertion abstractly, without recourse to empiricism. One might call this a "proof in theory". OK, my disgreement might just be a quibble. Received on Sun Feb 11 2007 - 23:19:10 CET