On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 12:29 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > The first thing to note is that y is actually a function of time and should > be denoted as y(t).
Yes, y is a function of many variables. I meant that to be implicit. By the way, "time" t is usually a catch-all term for other variables. > IMHO, society is sufficiently complex in the real world that y(t) will never > be identical > for two different times. Insofar as you keep calling it society (and not something else), it seems as if you recognize it before and after as the same thing, except that somehow different. A difference or change when the quality (society) is maintained is called "quantitative," meaning that it does not entail the disappearance of society, its replacement by some non-society. > What we are doing is abstracting society y(t) to a simplified model (in our > case > to Marx's labor theory of value (LTV)). In the case of environmentalists > they can > abstract to the amount of pollutants and natural resources. Yes, I did not mean that y was a simple object. Mathematically, you can make y as complex as you wish. Still, the complexity of actual societies will be greater. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
