Re: ( 1 (1) 1 )

afterlooking (?) your answer, i add

>>>> 20 Feb 2004 Patrick wrote:
>
>> playing permutations. that's pure mathematics.
>> about purity in basics, could you imagine  how to demonstate that 1
>> more 1 is 2 ?
>
> thought about this for awhile now, instead of using
> a loophole with additional symbols, have been on
> the idea of suspension of judgment, or decision. to
> how this could be represented. have for a long time
> wanted to create 'paradoxical logic machines' for a
> decade now, and while i have the knowledge to do
> so, for some reason the alphanumeric LED displays
> seem another level closer ..............
> e, and some careful language yet
> this was a way to get to an idea that is attempted
> to be shown below with the number 1, two of 1.
>
> i tried to write what i imagine this to represent
> in terms of paradox, how the middle one could
> be a decision to be made, and the left and the
> right ones could be choices, held in suspension
> in a multi-valued logic sense (superposition as
> an example, possibly). yet i tried to write it out
> and could not. and have forgotten my math so
> it makes a diagram instead. it is an attempt.
>

no way ! pure combination, not pure addition shown in your graph !
(your addition result is about 1,55 instead of 2....

:-)
Pat

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