On 18 Aug 2012, at 13:59, Roger wrote:
Hi meekerdb -- I go with the dictionary:
ab·stract/abˈstrakt/
Adjective:
Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or
concrete existence.
con·crete/känˈkrēt/
Adjective:
Existing in a material or physical form; real or solid; not abstract.
The dictionary has been written in the Aristotelian era. That will not
work if we are machine. In that case a better definition might be on
the line of:
Concrete: a precise natural number
Abstract: anything else.
Bruno
8/18/2012
Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so
everything could function."
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Subject: Re: The difference betrween abstract and concrete
On 8/17/2012 8:30 AM, Roger wrote:
Hi Jason Resch
One -- especially a computer -- cannot experience abstractions.
One (ie only living entities) can only experience the concrete.
Except physics tells us that concrete is mostly empty space and a
ray in an enormous Hilbert space.
Brent
Riddle: What's has four legs, fur, meows and is made of concrete?
Answer: A cat. I just threw in the concrete to make it hard.
ab·stract
adjective
1. thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or
actual instances: an abstract idea.
Roger , [email protected]
8/17/2012
Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so
everything could function."
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