Monday, June 3, 2019
Digression: Isomphorism
So apparently this is more beating around the bush for
no apparent reason, but this is an interesting idea which
not everyone is completely conversant, or perhaps
some small number. Perhaps no one is completely
conversant with it.
Anyway mathematics contains a notion of equality.
The founding father's of the USA also had some
idea like that in mind. Now as to the reality of
equality, well, we have a very large number of
examples of that, because ,,, everything is in fact
equal to itself.
But that brings up the notion of .. itself, because,
clearly, if you consider an individual, say mammal,
well, it's made up of a whole pile of atoms, some
of which are indistinguishable from another individual,
and so the whole notion of what makes an individual thing
can be confusing.
Well, isomorhism is a bit more sophisticated in that some
thing might be the same as some other thing but appear to be
different. This is quite a notion, and certainly can give your
head a scratch.
Anyway, I believe that if you are not familiar with the
word, you have some familiarity with the idea, as it
also appears to us in regular life in various ways, so
although you may have not specifically thought about
it, or scratched your head over it, you probably
have some intuition about it.
Why, am I writing about this? It's a digression, following
an interlude. Any more questions?
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