[New-Poetry] Re: Books a poet should own

Roger Day rog3r.day at gmail.com
Sun Oct 22 10:59:01 EDT 2006


Yes, Bob is right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_identity

and robin is right as well.

and I am right. So we all go home happy!!! Roffles!!!

FWIW, I was trying to ... umm ... I forget. Maybe mathematics cannot
substitute for language? It simplifies and homogenises ... experience?
So, (object)Bob (is a (type Human) {inherits from}) (type)deer but Bob
is a deer in that he locks horns with another stag on the windy heath.

Roger

On 10/22/06, Robin Hamilton <robin.hamilton2 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> >I take = to mean mathematically identical.
> >
> > --Bob G.
>
> The map is not the territory -- *except in mathematics.
>
> Robin
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