Jerry, list
The statement is true, if one considers that the map is not just a
collection of atoms, not just a collection of chemical molecules -
despite your predilection for so defining the world - but is instead
a semiosic entity, composed of a triadic set of
correlations/relations which relate and provide meaning to the
physical components; i.e., semiosically define these 'moles' as 'a
map.
Edwina
On Tue 28/05/19 1:59 PM , Jerry LR Chandler
[email protected] sent:
Jon, List:
A bit of nit-picking below, particularly in light of the organic
chemistry /bedrock claim.
On May 27, 2019, at 4:20 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt <
[email protected] [1]> wrote:
Suppose, then, that an absolutely correct and infinitely detailed map
of Governor's Island in New York Harbour be laid down on the ground
there. Then since the map represents the topography and all the
features at the time the map is lying there, the map must show the
map itself lying there; and must so show that map that, in the map of
the map, may be seen the map lying upon it, and on that map of the map
of the map may again be seen the map, with a sufficient microscope and
so on, ad infinitum , that is, down to a mathematical point which
will be nothing but the map of itself and the same will be true with
every map of its own environment, unless it be ring-shaped; and it is
much the same with any book whose last word is Finis.
The phrase "with a sufficient microscope and so on, ad infinitum,
that is, down to a mathematical point "is false if one considers that
the map is a physical object, composed from atoms of finite scale. The
individual molecules of the physical map are finite in scale and thus
the extension can be extended below the atomic scale. In this
instance, it appears that CSP failed to consider the meaning of
Avogadro’s number.
Cheers
Jerry
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