List, John: > On Mar 11, 2019, at 7:53 AM, John F Sowa <s...@bestweb.net> wrote: > > the word 'Term', which means 'predicate'.
If my memory serves me correctly, the word “term" derives from the middle ages, perhaps Peter of Spain? It is a shortened form of the word “terminal” which simply represents the beginning and ending of a sentence. In propositions, such as those developed by Aristotle, this usually referred to the subject and an attribute or property or characteristic of of the subject. Read Leibniz for his usage of the word for predicate! The mathematical usage of the word “predicate” as in “first order predicate logic” is for the purpose of constraining the meaning of linguistic terms so that arithmetic assertions are plausible and solvable (calculable). Mathematical usage of “words” with a very constrained meaning are often coined for the purpose of creating an internal consistency to the mathematical “silo” or linguistic lexical field. A critical part of the learning of art of applied mathematics is separating a strict logic of technical usage from the generalized meaning of ordinary human conversation. The bedrock of pragmaticism is, according to CSP assertion, the language of chemistry. In both the language and logic of chemistry, the role of nouns (proper names) is the bedrock of chemical identity, chemical mathematics and chemical experimentation. The manuscripts strongly support the hypothesis that CSP's coinage of the terms “line of identity” and “continuous predicate” both are taken directly from the analogous chemical perceptions. Some of the tensions between physical logic and chemical logic arises from the fact that most of the 100,000,000 known organic chemicals are asymmetric, not symmetric. The efforts of the mathematical community to extend the meaning of the term “predicate” is intimately connected to the laws of physics, the units of physics and the concerted effort to place symmetry theory (mathematical group theory) at the center of the philosophy of science. (See Book by Joseph Rosen, Symmetry, for the mathematical details.). To be consistent with science and with CSP putative “bedrock” for pragmaticism, the word “term” should be used accurately. Cheers Jerry
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