[Edu-sig] looking for explanations... globals dynamic dict

[kirby urner]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se> wrote:



> Incorrect, I think.  When I am talking about 'the same 'one' object',
> what I mean is not some sort of philosophical one-ness, some Platonic
> ideal of one, which like all the numbers, is a singleton, wherever it
> occurs in the universe.  I mean something much more concrete than
> that.
>


Loved your really explicit and detailed reply there Laura.

On a student quiz I'd write "Good and complete answer!".

Kirby

Footnote to Plato:

Not being a Platonist in the sense of nominalist (the two schools are
usually counter-posed, but not here), I don't see a need for some
"essential meaning" of "oneness".

Lots of partially overlapping use cases bearing a family resemblance
to one another is sufficient to anchor one's meaning.
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