(urth) Imaginary logic

António Pedro Marques entonio at gmail.com
Sat Oct 18 12:18:11 PDT 2014


Can someone more math-enjoying than me take up the challenge to build a system based on (A => B) & (A & ~B) ? Could some insight come out of the thing?


No dia 17/10/2014, às 19:29, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <danldo at gmail.com> escreveu:

> An interesting quote. 
> 
> We may, I think, assume that Wolfe (like me) assumes that the laws of arithmetic as we know them do not apply in infinities; after all, under the right circumstances 1=3 and 3=1.
> 
> But I'm not sure that this settles the idea that there is/is not a place where maths and logic don't apply. At most this suggests that different maths may apply in different circumstances, just as Euclidean geometry and Riemannian geometry both produce useful pictures of reality.
> 
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Robert Pirkola <rpirkola at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Lee said: "Plus, if a pawn makes it to the end of the board, they can be brought back as a more powerful
> 
> piece. I think Wolfe intends this analogy for Severian (The Conciliator/New Sun) after he returns
> 
> from Yesod."
> 
> He has made such an analogy at least one other time, in "To the Seventh", which also contains 
> this interesting passage that has a whiff of recent topics: "Outside its sides that were not sides
> the universe was a point of matter vastly heavy, and a vastness beyond the reach of mathematics
> in which matter was so rare that it could truthfully said not to exist." (*Strange Travelers*, Tor
> paperback, pg. 132).
> 
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