Re: Mentalism and Calculus

Posted by Roger Frye-3 on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Mentalism-and-Calculus-tp526405p528375.html

Nick,

I think I am beginning to get a glimmer of what you are complaining about.  The wording of your definition is ambiguous.  How about this one from Google:

a geometric element that has position but no extension; "a point is defined by its coordinates"

I think you are arguing that since a point has a fixed position, it can't move.

The rest of us are talking about a particle (again with no extension) that is moving from one point to another.

-Roger

On Jul 14, 2008, at 9:28 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:

Robert,

 

Some how this message got caught in my outbox and you went unchastised for a whole 48 hours.

 

No!  You have gone a bridge to far, unless you are willing to rewrite the role of definitions in axiom systems. 

 

In a system in which a definition is, "a point is a position in space lacking dimension"

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