Nick,
I think I am beginning to get a glimmer of what you are complaining
about. The wording of your definition is ambiguous. How about this
one from Google:
a geometric element that has position but no extension; "a point is
defined by its coordinates"
I think you are arguing that since a point has a fixed position, it
can't move.
The rest of us are talking about a particle (again with no extension)
that is moving from one point to another.
-Roger
On Jul 14, 2008, at 9:28 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Robert,
Some how this message got caught in my outbox and you went
unchastised for a whole 48 hours.
No! You have gone a bridge to far, unless you are willing to
rewrite the role of definitions in axiom systems.
In a system in which a definition is, "a point is a position in
space lacking dimension"
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