Re: [FRIAM] Rosen, functional entailments

2008-08-15 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Roger Critchlow wrote: > No functors were deployed in the construction of these paragraphs. I agree that the "F" isn't a functor. But, it is at the same level of discourse as functors. It's part of the definition of a category, an axiom, which means it comes from _outside_ the formalism. I.e.

Re: [FRIAM] Rosen, functional entailments

2008-08-15 Thread Roger Critchlow
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Nicholas Thompson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, Russell. > > Is your comment differ with Ken's or is it Ken's in another language. > > For a former english major, the LANGUAGE is everything. > > The operation of functional composition, taking *f: A -> B* a

Re: [FRIAM] Rosen, functional entailments

2008-08-15 Thread Nicholas Thompson
ssage] > From: Russell Standish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Date: 8/15/2008 10:09:06 PM > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Rosen, functional entailments > > Your question on what F(f,g) is: I think it is ordin

Re: [FRIAM] Rosen, functional entailments

2008-08-15 Thread Ken Lloyd
to, but different than functions. Ken _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicholas Thompson Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 12:03 AM To: friam Subject: [FRIAM] Rosen, functional entailments Roseneers, If anybody is still willing to help out in

Re: [FRIAM] Rosen, functional entailments

2008-08-15 Thread Russell Standish
Your question on what F(f,g) is: I think it is ordinary function composition, usually denoted fog (where the o is actually a small circle, not the letter "o"). ie (fog)(x) = f(g(x)). I'm not entirely sure why the use of "inner" and "outer" entailment refers to this, though. Inner and outer normal

[FRIAM] Rosen, functional entailments

2008-08-14 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Roseneers, If anybody is still willing to help out in understanding chapter five, of LIFE ITSELF I have posted a queston at http://www.sfcomplex.org/mw/index.php?title=Talk:RosenNoodles#More_struggles_with_chapter_five Let me know, if you cant get in. One of you wrote me a kindly note asking