[MD] Capitalism: my experience

[Horse]

Spot on Arlo

On 26/02/2010 14:01, ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote:
> Math is a fine example of this, where "2" went from iconic picto-glyph "count"
> marks to represent concrete iterations of, say, "cattle" to an abstract
> "number" manipulated independently of any cattle (or anything else) which paved
> the way for algebra, geometry and calculus.
>
> And this fits precisely with what Pirsig says about the intellectual level
> being the skilled manipulation of symbols with no corresponding reality.
>    

And here's another couple of mathematical concepts that have no 
corresponding reality:

0

square root of -1

and there are a whole bunch of others, too numerous to mention, that are 
purely abstract, exist only at the intellectual level and are neither 
subject or object!

Horse

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