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

[Roger Day]

Maybe what we're straining to find is the word or concept
"equivalence". Equivalence in maths is less strict than equals.

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

"Equivalence relations should rather be thought of as grouping
together objects that are similar in some sense, see also the notion
of partition below."

There's that word similar. It also neatly brings in set theory.


Roger

On 10/23/06, Kazmandu at aol.com <Kazmandu at aol.com> wrote:
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> In a message dated 10/22/2006 6:59:12 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> new-poetry-request at wiz.cath.vt.edu writes:
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> _Kazmandu at aol.com_ (mailto:Kazmandu at aol.com)  wrote:
> >  When I took physics one of the
> > first things the professor said was that  ‘=’ means ‘is like’ not
> ‘is’
> > even though we say ‘is’.
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> Yesterday I was at Translation conference (translation from a
> philosophical,
> political and sociological perspective) and  I'm definitely now of
> the mind that in language there can never be 'means' but only
> 'is like'. The translator's ideal remains 'means' but s/he must settle  for
> 'is like'. There are bi-directional gains and losses in this, of course,
> for both the source and target language.
> Finnegan
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> Hi Jim,
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>      I am not sure of what you are saying. Are you saying that 'means' means
> '='?
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> Are you saying there is no 'is' only 'is like'?
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> Thanks,
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> Kaz
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> Cheers,
> Kaz
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> http://mathematicalpoetry.blogspot.com/
> http://www.kazmaslanka.com/
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