RE: Relationships, context WAS: (SWAG: Re: & kindaLike that too)AND(RE: &)

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Well, it looks like I can send mail again. Jeez, it is certainly 
frustrating when you can't respond, which is what I encountered 
yesterday afternoon/evening.

Yes and No. I wasn't asking what synonymTo meant, just whether 
synonumTo was a Typo or intentional.

The more I think about it, the more I think it may be one of those 
typos that turns into something useful.

It actually makes sense, more than kindaLike to me, which sounds like 
pit waiting for us to fall into. I'm not a big fan of fuzzy logic, 
although I can see some use for it in a few instances.

What synonumTo  COULD do is to become an adjunct to our algebra of 
modules. By giving equivalence an arithmetic base, it might be 
useful, it might not. In any event, I doubt it is a big mainstream 
issue for us.

However, in Art, the use of unintentional effects is well known, and 
this is likely to be an Art as much as a Science.

Ciao,
Rex

P.S. The open public forum IS the place to think out loud, and try on 
various modes of thought. The TC list, once the first meeting is 
behind us, will be the place for narrowing down our focus to working 
methodologies.

Only those threads with the five names we're working on for the first 
meeting are requested to be focused on topic. Let's not forget what 
open-public means.

At 11:37 AM +0300 8/29/01, Manos Batsis wrote:
>  > -----Original Message-----
>>  From: Rex Brooks [mailto:rexb@starbourne.com]
>
>>  >:x synonumTo :y .
>>
>>  This is neither meant as joke or criticism, because there's a couple
>>  of very good conditional concepts in here, so: Is this just a typo,
>>  meaning to actually state:
>>
>>  :x synonymTo:y ?
>>
>>  or is the term synonum actually a contraction of synonym and sum so
>>  that it is a coined mathematical term meaning an equivalent numerical
>>  value comparing say a percent and a fraction that yields an
>>  irrational or unique quotient? This would be an odd place to
>>  introduce a new math concept, but the concept has several useful
>>  purposes i could think of.
>
>synonymTo just states that :x has the same meaning with :y. It has
>nothing to do with math (the way I see it) and makes no assumptions on
>the... um... resource datatype? (ok I'm kindaLike loosing it).
>
>*If* I understand you correctly though (sometimes English and math seems
>Greek to me ;-) it could work the way you point out, but I still see it
>like a side effect, as the association does not become established
>directly (meaning mathematical) but semantically. Now, if we see
>synonymTo as a kind of equality, then it is an equality that doesn't
>exist; instead we just tell an application to treat x AS IF it where
>equal to y.
>
>I don't know if I have answered your question. Maybe you could provide
>an example or two?
>
>Kindest regards,
>
>Manos


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