Aren't you in so doing, conflating a "thing in itself" with a "thing as
defined in some context" i.e. ordinary old fashioned first versus second
order concepts? This is the same as for example saying that a person may
be a mother and a pilot but is still the same person, or that a business
entity may be at one time a securities issuer, a contract counterparty
and a customer. (01)
Both the first- and second-order concepts are meaningful terms and so
potentially have a place in some meaningful model of the world. (02)
Mike (03)
Ron Wheeler wrote:
> On 24/08/2010 1:59 PM, Rich Cooper wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ferenc,
>>
>> I’m trying to understand why you apply space-time to identity
>> recognition. If Aristotle had an idea (the syllogism), that idea is
>> the same one we use today, and often debate the intricacies of on
>> this list.
>>
>> Since it’s the same idea, but with a different space-time boundary,
>> it seems identical to itself for that reason – time and space do not
>> bound abstract concept objects like they sometimes do with physical
>> objects. But even there, the pottery shard made in Egypt 5,000 years
>> ago is still the same pottery shard found by some Indiana Jones in
>> 1935. So even there, the time space bracketing isn’t necessary or
>> even useful, IMHO.
>>
> Are you sure? The pottery shard made in Egypt 5,000 years ago was
> trash from a broken pot. The current view of that would be more along
> the lines of priceless artifact detailing an important time in human
> history.
>>
>> Time and space are good bracketing properties for some applications,
>> but not for all kinds of objects when identity is being modeled, IMHO.
>>
>> Re the observer’s relationship with the object, it seems that the
>> <sign,interpretANT,interpretER> says it all; potentially, everyone
>> could interpret any sign in any way they please. So identity in that
>> universe has to be conditioned on who is doing the identification.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Rich
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Rich Cooper
>>
>> EnglishLogicKernel.com
>>
>> Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com
>>
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>>
>> Following the law of identity an object is identical with itself if
>> it exists at a particular place in space and a particular point of
>> time. This is like duplicating an object. So therefore two seemingly
>> identical objects are only identical with each other, if we disregard
>> space an time parameters. This is called abstarction,
>> disaambiguation, decontextualization, etc.
>>
>> But if you accept that an object has two facets, namely form and
>> content, or if you accept that no claim on identity may be made
>> without including the aspect of the observer, then it must be clear,
>> that either you have a new situation when the object is seen from a
>> different aspect by the same observer, or you have another observer.
>> Both of those aspects mean that you have a relation between the
>> observer and the object observed, in other word the observer relates
>> the object to him/herself.
>>
>> Since objects have names (even concepts do) which are forms, we are
>> faced with the problem of defining and harmonizing the associated
>> content (usually properties) in each observer to achive mutual
>> understanding.
>>
>> I admit that space and time parameters may be dropped for some
>> purpose, but as Physics teaches us, the aspect of the observer
>> cannot. Otherwise you are all talking to yourselves.
>>
>> Ferenc
>>
>>
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