Re: SUO: Re: 'q'
At 24-03-01 20:00, Jon Awbrey wrote:
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>| Some persons will immediately cry out, "How 'can'
>| a reality resemble a feeling?" Here we find how
>| wise we were to name the quality of the feeling
>| by an algebraic letter 'q'. We flank the whole
>| difficulty of resemblance between an inner state
>| and an outward reality, by leaving it free to any
>| one to postulate as the reality whatever sort of
>| thing he thinks 'can' resemble a feeling, -- if
>| not an outward thing, then another feeling like
>| the first one, -- the mere feeling 'q' in the
>| critic's mind for example.
>|
>| William James, 'The Meaning of Truth',
>| Longmans, Green, & Co., London, 1909,
>| page 8.
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### Hi Jon,
### Ah, we should also be so lucky, to "flank whole difficulties"
in this manner, and moreover convince our stupid computers of this.
### In fact, how *can* a reality resemble a feeling? An easy
but lengthy and tedious proof, the margin of this email being too
narrow to contain it, shows that "A can resemble B" is an
equivalence relation on the set of all real things, which from the
above conveniently includes all feelings; assuming every item of
reality merits at least one feeling it trivially follows that
reality is isomorphic to the quotient of all feelings over what
one thinks can resemble them
### Voilà. QED. Ontology is solved. *yawn*
### Gotta go back to work now, this day is an hour short
--Robert Meersman
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