On 5/12/2012 10:22 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Sat, May 12, 2012 meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net
<mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote:
> You should get a 21st century dictionary
In geometry, orthogonal means "involving right angles" (from Greek ortho,
meaning
right, and gon meaning angled). The term has been extended to general use,
meaning
the characteristic of being independent (relative to something else).
So lets review: you said "It's orthogonal to deterministic/random" and I responded
with "Orthogonal? There is only one way "it" could not be deterministic and not random
{independent of determinism and randomness} , there is only one way "it" was not caused
for a reason and not not caused for a reason, and that is if "it" is gibberish". That
clearly demonstrates two things, I knew EXACTLY what the word "orthogonal" meant and you
my dear Brent did not.
No you don't. I guess I have to draw a diagram
Determined
|
|
Coerced-------------------------Free
|
|
Random
What I said was that it's, i.e. coerced/free is a variable orthogonal to
deterministic/random, meaning that points in all quadrants of the above diagram are possible.
Brent
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