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Old 27th Aug 2011, 21:14
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MountainBear
 
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In the end it's all "cognitive" but the character of engagement
This is typing disguised as thinking. It's a mind that's more interested in appearing like it's thinking than actually thinking.

When we write "A=B" we don't mean that the letter A shares the same graphical design as the letter B. Math is a symbolic language. When we write that A=B we mean that at some level of abstraction A shares some property (but not a unity) with B. Thus for every A=B there is also the contrapositive that A != B.

If in the end it's all cognitive then A=A a statement which has the same informational content as "everything is everything". Nor is this reality changed if one changes "the character of engagement" so that there is some other symbol between A and A: A+A, A-A, A*A.

Nothing that you wrote is on any use for a person, a pilot, or a judge as a tool for decision making. I don't know which is worse: the nihilism that is so en vogue among the political set or the nominalism so prevalent among the intellectuals.
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