What qualities do you mean?
Do you understand that 3*1 is exactly the same as adding three 1s together?
Where do you explain what those pictures mean? What qualities do the 1s have?
Zooterkin,
I apologize for a bit of bad form by commenting on questions you addressed to Doron. I'm grabbing an opportunity here to state the problem I so long windily tried to yesterday. Also chances that Doron's reply will answer your questions are marginal at best.
Doron does understand that 3*1 is the same as adding three 1s together.
His 3*1 ≠ 3=1+1+1 is not the same as the quantitative addition of 1+1+1. The quantitative addition is of three items, objects, or things. As such it doesn't acknowledge their Subjective being. (Or Uniqueness" as I called it.). For example three cats 1+1+1 = 3*1. They add up together as a class of three of the same sort, or as three animals, or as three things. However for Lindy they aren't merely three things, or just three cats. They're her precious companions Cleo, Shorts, and Brandenburg. Even when she sets out their three eating bowls, they aren't three objects to her. Each is practically a person.
Now Doron's gripe with Mathematics as is (apart from the infinity critique) is that it makes whoever, whatever it speaks of objects in categories, completely ignoring their Subjective being. This is the quality he is concerned with. Now if there were just some way to rework Mathematics so it could show this quality in the process, wouldn't we have a more respectful world? So he offers a "Qualitative Addition" by means of diagrams and brackets.
I suppose that one could use those brackets to remind oneself that the cats spoken of are uniquely themselves beyond any categorization. However, the moment I say "Lindy has three cat companions," even if I write it "Lindy has (three) (cat) companions," I've already made an objective statement in which the cats are a matter of objective discourse. Yes, Shorts is a being beyond objective reference, and Shorts, Brandenburg, and Cleo, as such do not sum to three cats. But in using the operation of addition they do, for objective purposes. They become the addition of three items. Their category is three items.
If I want to be in a subjective discourse with them, I can as any old cat lady talk to them. However in such an exchange (to what extent they respond) I'm not engaged in doing addition.
The point is that the moment I do addition, multiplication, subtraction, division I'm mentally manipulating objects of some general class. Even if I use brackets, italics, bolds, capitals, diagrams, for purpose of the mathematical operations, my discourse is about objects in classes. The gimmicks might remind me that outside of the operations, Brandenburg, Shorts, and Cleo are beings in their own light. But the doing of the addition is inescapably an objective activity and manipulation.
So, you ask the obvious question, isn't 3*1 exactly the same as adding three 1s together? Yes, it is, even if it's called a "Qualitative Addition."
Doron's Not Equal is to say that the aren't qualitatively equal. Each one of those 1s is supposed to be, not a mere quantity one, but a Unique being beyond quantification, or only secondarily countable. Each is one as a whole of itself.
He allows for an operation of the addition of objects in perspective of "Verbal-symbolic AND Visual-spatial." He wants a approach in Mathematics where the Subjective is integral to the operation. I don't see that he has achieved this. And naturally as soon as he uses the language of Mathematics, readers take it as matters of objective quantities and can't see where Subjectivity fits in. The brackets and diagrams signify a dimension of subjective being, but unless told that they signify such the reader hasn't a clue beyond ordinary mathematical operations. The use of them does not naturally engage a Visual-spatial perspective, an awareness of Being, or Unity Awareness. By default the mathematician takes them as merely quantitative extensions.
Again, my bad for answering questions directed to Doron. I welcome him answering you himself (since this is his thread) and correcting me if I've misunderstood.
His brackets, diagrams, and charts do serve the purpose of calling his readers attention to a dimension of being that is beyond objective quantification (provided they see that) Maybe they could serve as a reminder that we are beyond categories. But I've yet to see a mathematical operation that engages Subjective relation.