Exotic Logics

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On Jun 17, 11:59 am, Aaron Brady <castiro... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 17, 1:44 am, Steven D'Aprano
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> <ste... at REMOVE.THIS.cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:46:14 -0700, William Clifford wrote:
> > > I was staring at a logic table the other day, and I asked myself, "what
> > > if one wanted to play with exotic logics; how might one do it?"
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> > This might be useful for you, and if not useful, at least it might blow
> > your mind like it did mine.
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> > (This is not original to me -- I didn't create it. However, I can't find
> > the original source.)
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> > Imagine for a moment that there are no boolean values.
> > There are no numbers.  They were never invented.
> > There are no classes.
> > There are no objects.
> > There are only functions.
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> > Could you define functions that act like boolean values? And could you
> > define other functions to operate on them?
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> I think high and low /voltages/, though continuous and approximate,
> might satisfy this.
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> There are no such things as electrons,

I've got a Tesla coil if you'd like to meet some electrons personally.

> only variations in density of
> the luminiferous ether.