Some questions on Slate syntax

[Brian Rice]

Please, drop it. Take this up on a philosophy of computing forum. We 
have a lot of interesting things to work on, and will abstract over 
this issue as we can (as we abstract over everything we can as we gain 
the ability). This diatribe serves no one.

On Apr 2, 2005, at 10:14 PM, Shaping wrote:

>>> You need not choose a theoretical anything.  Just observe.  Don't 
>>> think so much. Counting starts at 1, because the smallest number of 
>>> things you can /observe/ is 1.
>>
>> So when I look into, say, a matchbox and count that there are 0 
>> matches
>> in it, I'm not observing anything?
>
> You cannot count 0 things.  This is a nonoperation, a 
> self-contradiction.  You have confused the memory of a too familiar 
> concept (0) with a perception.

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Brian T. Rice
LOGOS Research and Development
http://tunes.org/~water/