Re: A DECLARATION OF MEANING

From: John Edser (edser_at_tpg.com.au)
Date: 08/03/04 

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 04:25:13 +0000 (UTC)

Name And Address Supplied wrote:-

> > ______________________start of Form ______________________
> > I declare the following as a true statement
> > of meaning for all ongoing discussion.
> > If I change any declared meaning that appears
> > within this declaration I will explicitly acknowledge
> > that this point of meaning I have provided may have been
> > refuted where refutation can be proven via either,
> > logical invalidity or a confirmed point of refutation.
> >
> > Name:
>
> ---
>
> > Address:
>
> ---
>
> > DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES:
> > A) What is the purpose
> > of processing only fictitious data?
>
> Illustrative purposes?
>
> > B) What is the purpose
> > of processing non fictitious
> > data?
>
> Illustration and also hypothesis testing.
>
> > C) What do you state is the difference
> > in principle between any relative and
> > any absolute measure?
>
> Absolute refers to a universal standard. A relative measure involves a
> rescaling of the absolute measure for comparative purposes.
>
> > DECLARED DEFINITIONS:
> >
> > (i) DEFINE ABSOLUTE FITNESS and
> > describe how it can be measured.
>
> If we define fitness as being that which is maximised by the action of
> natural selection, then the concept of absolute fitness seems to be a
> meaningless concept.
>
> > (ii) DEFINE RELATIVE FITNESS and say
> > how it can be measured.
> >
> Fitness is fundamentally a relative concept, so "relative fitness" =
> "fitness". Measuring it would, of course, require a more detailed
> definition.
> Note that John Edser wrote:

>snip<

JE:-
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