[Arisbe] SUO: Re: Manifolds Of Sensuous Impressions (MOSI's)

[Jon Awbrey]

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Manifold Interest Group:

Pat Hayes is helping me to see -- I will tell you later
if I thank him for the lesson! -- that the complementary
exchange relations between pictures and words are somewhat
more entangled than formerly have we been led to believe,
and that many more thousands of words will most likely
need to be tendered to explain a single picture after
that initial bit of savings is invested in the bank!

But one ray of light did get through to me as I whiled away
the hours in my abject condition of off-list detention, and
I thought that it might serve to avert not a little bit of
misapprehension if I e-mitted it, now, however precociously,
and not wait until my lessons are, and my sentence is done.
Too late!  Too late!  That sentence is now thrice times old!

I am trying to attend here to something other than the interest in continuity
that this "doctrine or theory of categories or manifolds" (DOT.COM) business,
to me, rather derivatively has, and that is the sense in which this entire
"theory of categories" (TOC) is really just a theory, or maybe more like
a conceptual framework or a symbolic formalism, that treats the subject
matter of mathematical analogies, even of metaphors, and there I trust
that it would hardly be controversial to anybody to say that Aristotle
wrote the book on both.  Now, it's Friday, and so I will not weary you
with links to all of the places that I have mentioned this before, but
I hope that this clarification will make our weekends a little easier.

Tegedizi, y'all!

Jon Awbrey

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