SUO: Re: 'q'
Robert Meersman wrote:
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> 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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Robert,
Hey, it's not my story.
It's the story of 'q'.
It's a continuum story.
But, given my nature,
I have to be discrete
in the way I tell it.
Besides, I'm only
reading it the way
King James wrote it.
Amenably Yours,
Jon Awbrey
P.S. If I persieve a catch, though, it would be this,
that to merit and to receive, if in the end, we
hope, coincide, so rarely do in these mean times.
J.A.
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