Re: A DECLARATION OF MEANING

From: Perplexed in Peoria (jimmenegay_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 08/03/04 

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 04:25:08 +0000 (UTC)

"Bob O'Hara" <bob.ohara@NOSPAM.helsinki.fi> wrote in message news:cels01$175j$1@darwin.ediacara.org...
> someone wrote:
> > (vi) WHAT ARE ALL THE COMBINATIONS
> > OF VARIABLES THAT THE PROPOSITION
> > ALLOWS?
> >
> > The rule allows for ten
> > different combinations of just three
> > variables: r,b and c:
> >
> > (a) +r +b +c
> > (b) +r +b -c
> > (c) +r -b -c
> > (d) +r -b +c
> > (e) -r +b -c
> > (f) +r +b +c
> > (g) -r -b -c
> > (h) -r -b +c
> > (i) -r +b +c
> > (j) -r -b -c
> >
> (a) and (f), and (g) and (j) are the same. It is easy to show that
> there are only 8 possible states.

Or, if you distinguish zero values from positive or negative ones,
then there are 27.

But it would be better to say that there is only one class of states
to be considered:
r is a (pure) number
c is a number (in units of some kind of fitness)
b is a number (in the same units as c)

Since the rule does not distinguish between positive and negative
parameter values, and treats all combinations the same, there is
no reason to do a case analysis, unless you think that the concept
of a negative number is somehow philosophically difficult to comprehend.

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