Originally Posted by doronshadmi:
Uncertainty of ids means that if the system is finite, then the quantitative aspect (the cardinality) of this superposition is clearly known, but the involved ids under a given quantity (cardinality) is uncertain.
Originally Posted by Apathia:
I take that to mean that I have
my paper clip,
my pen,
my toenail,
my malachite sphere,
my bottle of ibuprofen,
my "the finger" rock.
All with definite cardinaity of six.
What I don't have, what is uncertain here, is how many of whats, quantities of common identity (or class). There's not much "redundancy" for this list, but lots of "uncertainty."
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No, there is exactly 0-Uncertainty x 0-Redundancy in the above collection of distinct objects, which is based on (A,B,C,D,E,F) ON's form.
Originally Posted by Apathia:
Number has nothing to do with those "parallel" items, unless they are numbered.
Doron:
I see that you are able to get the concept of Number only in terms of (A,B,C,D,E,F,...) asymmetric form.
It looks like you are saying that even when there is no uncertainty and no redundancy, that is when the objects in the list are not gathered into a count, but just there, there is cardinality and quantity.
I thought that maybe your idea in the above was something like at 0-uncertainty and 0-redundancy there's not cardinality but ordinality.
But it seems you insist that there is nevertheless some kind of quantity but not a sum.
An uncertain quantity. That's the best I can make of it.
But I see from you most recent reply to me, I'm wrong about that too.
I have completely misunderstood what you mean by these terms, "Redundancy" and "Uncertainty."
One way I was taking it that is not your meaning is that I thought the more redundancy you have the less uncertainty , and vice versa.
Obviously not.
Whatever these terms are supposed to mean, you can have 0% Uncertainty and 0% Redundancy and you can have 100% Uncertainty and 100& Redundancy.
Which just goes to show, I don't in the least know what these terms mean.
I have to chuck all of my attempt to understand them in terms of classes of identification.
It's clear that these words,
"Uncertainty"
"Redundancy"
"Identity"
"Number"
"Cardinality"
"Parallel"
"Serial"
and so on
do not mean anything like what an English speaking person would get from a dictionary.
But I'm at a total loss at understanding what you mean by them, because the words and phrases you use to try to explain your meaning are also not what they would ordinarily mean.
So, I am totally at a loss of making any sense of even the most basic part of what you mean by number.
In the English language, there are four ways we use numbers:
1) Cardinally: Numbers are used to count items. the count obtained is called the sum.
2) Ordinally: Numbers are used to designate place in order: the first, the second, and so on.
3)Nominatively: Numbers can be used to name an item. The Romans used ordinals to name their sons. Tertius (the Third) for example. But that's not English. A contemporary English examples might be "Seven of Nine" or "Number Six."
4. Adjectivally: Numbers are used in an adjectival qualitative sort of way.
"second hand," "first rate."
But now you have some other use of number.
I wish I had some idea what that was.
I see that you are able to get the concept of Number only in terms of (A,B,C,D,E,F,...) asymmetric form.
You can add "asymmetric" to that list of words of which I have no understanding.
This has been like bobbing in a barrel of eels.
I can't get a hold on all these slippery, slick words.
So I thought I could at least get what sort of barrel they're in.
I assumed there at least was a somewhat coherent container.
But unless you can find a way to show me what this concept of number is and how it contrasts with the traditional concepts of number,
for my own sanity, I'm going to put this thread on hide and stay away from it.
It seemed fun when I thought I was getting somewhere in understanding you.
But the eels slip out of my grasp. And the barrel rolls away.
The other participants in this thread point and laugh and say, "We told you so. He's just spouting a lot of confused nonsense. And your a dup for thinking there might be something in it."
This comedy routine is getting stale.