SUO: Lations: Eternal Subspecies & Secular Kifilians
Horn, Graham wrote:
>
> Dear Matthew,
>
> Thanks for this explanation.
> I certainly agree about the
> restrictions with 3D models
>
> However, I still don't understand why relations
> do not also have a time dimension. For example,
> what about two beings which have friendly relations
> at some periods and hostile ones at other times?
> Other such relations that come to mind include:
> trade, communication connections and schedules
> (eg. road, rail, cable), treaties, taxation and
> social security - all possibly with time-varying
> capacities, many of which were exemplified in the
> last century by the impacts of technology and/or
> the Iron Curtain.
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Graham,
Brief note for now, as I am in the mi(d)st of a lot (49) of other work --
A k-adic (-ary, -valent) relation with a time dimension adjoined
is just a special kind of a (k+1)-adic (-ary, -valent) relation.
More on this later,
If I have the time,
Many Regards,
From Behind The Orange Curtain,
"Where Democracy Is A Work In Progess",
If Only We Had The Time To Bother With It!
Jon Awbrey
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