Re: MD Time

From: ian glendinning (psybertron@gmail.com)
Date: Thu May 26 2005 - 02:41:18 BST

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    Scott - the aphorism ...

    I wasn't really talking the triplets here. It's just the rule that
    creates the zillion onion-skins. It's easier to describe with a
    picture.

    Roughly - Each "thing" has three layers along any given axis.
    In the middle is the bit where there is little doubt what you're
    talking about, because you chosen and named what it is you're talking
    about.
    Above and below it are two "distinguishing" layers where its doubtful
    how it relates to other things (that you are distinguishing from it by
    some classification rule) on that axis / aspect. Think of a gaussian
    distribution bell-curve - the hump in the middle, with two tails.

    Trouble is, that rule also applies to each layer - certainty in the
    middle, doubt at the two extremes. So where you had 2 - the thing and
    its complement, you found 3
    where you had 3 (on a chosen aspect / aspect) you find 9, then 27,
    then 81, then a zillion onion-skins, for each aspect of
    classification.

    It's only an aphorism. :-) (To remind us there are many shades of
    grey, or many "onion-skins" when we open a subject up to analysis.)
    Ian

    On 5/26/05, Scott Roberts <jse885@localnet.com> wrote:
    > Ian,
    >
    > Ian said:
    > My little aphorism for the binary chop (clasification) problem is ...
    >
    > "Everything comes in three layers, including layers."
    >
    > Now that IS an axiom.
    >
    > Scott:
    > I can agree with the "three", but I'm not sure about the "layers". But I may
    > be mistaking what you mean. There is the Hegelian triad, which is
    > layer-like, but there is also the Peircean triad, which is not. Maybe an
    > example would help.
    >
    > - Scott
    >
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