Spot on Arlo
On 26/02/2010 14:01, ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote:
Math is a fine example of this, where "2" went from iconic picto-glyph "count"
marks to represent concrete iterations of, say, "cattle" to an abstract
"number" manipulated independently of any cattle (or anything else) which paved
the way for algebra, geometry and calculus.
And this fits precisely with what Pirsig says about the intellectual level
being the skilled manipulation of symbols with no corresponding reality.
And here's another couple of mathematical concepts that have no
corresponding reality:
0
square root of -1
and there are a whole bunch of others, too numerous to mention, that are
purely abstract, exist only at the intellectual level and are neither
subject or object!
Horse
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in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what
a ride!"... Hunter S Thompson
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