SUO: RE: Re: Expostulation
Dear Jon,
> Matthew West wrote:
> >
> > MW: One reason I am pursuing this discussion is that
> > if there really are things it cannot handle,
> > I would really like to know.
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> Dear Matthew,
>
> I always take people at their word,
> so I take you really to want to know:
>
> The POV that you have been exposing here
> cannot handle 3-adic relations in any way,
> if by "handle" you mean "not destroying" the
> information contained in their apt expressions.
>
> The "Pat Hayes Universal Change Of Variables Formula" (PHUCOVF)
> has now been exposed as the "change of subject" (COS) formula
> that it really is at heart, and the author of it has admitted
> that nobody ever meant to say what some people once pretended
> that it said, as have you also in regard to a co-indited point.
MW: Well I noticed that you claimed to have overturned Pat's
proof, but I am not sufficiently versed in these things to be
sure that you are not employing the same kinds of tricks that
you claim Pat has employed. So I'm afraid that is not an
arguement that will convince me on its own. If you wish to do
that you will have to present a specific example of where the
information in some triadic relation cannot be transformed into
some set of binary relations. If you provide the triadic relation,
I will provide the binary relations from which the triadic relation
can be constructed (or not and admit you are right).
>
> The only residual dross of the matter appears to turn on the
> circumstance
> that some people cannot yet distinguish a relation from an
> element of one.
MW: Well this makes me think that you have a different definition
of what a relation is to me. This would easily explain how we
have been missing each other.
>
> I will take up the task of that refinement at my next opportunity.
>
> Jon Awbrey
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Regards
Matthew
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