I mean... I feel like "discovery" if the first challenge for your classification system to justify... ;- )
On Fri, Sep 3, 2021, 11:24 AM <thompnicks...@gmail.com> wrote: > Colleagues, > > > > Years ago, my daughter, who knows I hate to shop, bought me a bunch of > plain T-shirts. The label’s on the shirts were printed, rather than > attached, and so have faded. Each morning, this leaves me with the problem > of decerning which is the front and which the back of the shirt, and even, > which the inside and which the out-. After years of fussing with these > shirts I decerned a pattern. Up/down, inside-in/inside-out, left/right, > front/back, crossed arms/uncrossed arms, you can’t do one transformation > without doing at least one other. > > > > Is this an empirical discovery or a mathematical one? > > > > I guess it boils down to whether “front/back” entails in its meaning > another transformation. Should we call empirical discoveries > “discoveries” and mathematical discoveries “revelations”? > > > > Nick > > > > Nick Thompson > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >
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