Right?
-Prof. Tim
I pictured the statement this morning that: All points in a 2 demensional
representation (graph) have one coordinate in common (true?); and therefore
all coordinates have any one point in common (right?). But the isosemantic
point/coordinate (using your word...correctly?) 0,0 has either/both all
points and/or all coordinates (or none?) in common. I assumed that "0,0"
being the common point/coordinate represents the sameness of "ancestor" and
"descendent" at some--infinite--point in time.
The complications I found were: Linearity (as implied by decending...) is
not represented well on a 2D graph--but I assume the relationship would
hold. Point zero has a different set of characteristics (infinite?) than
other coordinates (which suggests that the relationship might be a parabola
and never reach 100% probablility). The relationship remains undefined--the
"ancestor" is either ancestor, or descendent (perhaps both or neither) and
the relationship is therefore true or false (both? neither?).
Is the statement perhaps an axiom? And if so, what does that say about
axioms? For example: Remember, I proposed the statement in an attempt to
falsify the statement that all descendents have a common ancestor. I am
curious how many isosomantic versions of an axiom falsify each other while
at the same time varifying each.)
Brett
At 01:50 PM 9/27/97 -0700, you wrote:
>On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Brett Lane Robertson wrote:
>> >>All ancestors have a (one) common human descendent.
>> If ALL decendents have a common ancester, then all ancesters have
>> something in common with any one descendent).
>BING! (sound of lightbulb going on)
>I see--if all descendents have a common ancestor, then all ancestors have
>common descendants, because the only isosemantic "ancestor" will be the
>one from which a descendants are... well,... descended.
>Right?
>-Prof. Tim
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