From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Sat Dec 09 2000 - 15:08:38 MST
At 12:34pm -0500 12/9/00, John Clark wrote:
>If a copy is made of
>me then there are two indistinguishable things, but if "I" is a
>adjective and not
>a noun then there can still be one "I".
On what definition do you base this concept of counting? If two
objects behave in the same way and look exactly alike, you count them
as a single object? Is my pair of contact lenses really a single
lense? Is my mega-pack of blank CD's really just one CD? Do you
count objects in the real world the same way you count entities in
this example? You seem to be using a different definition of
counting than most people use.
You seem to be describing Plato's cosmic forms. While there are many
chairs, there is one cosmic concept of chairness. All chairs are one
in the universe. This gets into Platonic mysticism.
If you really are defining yourself as an adjective instead of a
noun, then you need to define how you copy or count and adjective.
How do you copy redness? How many rednesses are there? If I create
a new object that is the same color as the old one, is there still
only one redness object? If I had three balls of primary colors, two
cubes of red and yellow, and one cone of red, would you count these
as 6 objects, 3 rednessess, 2 yellownesses, or 1 blueness?
-- Harvey Newstrom <HarveyNewstrom.com>
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