Re: Re: Re: Re: solve and Abs
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- Subject: [mg69574] Re: [mg69530] Re: [mg69456] Re: [mg69398] Re: solve and Abs
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 06:47:52 -0400 (EDT)
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On 15 Sep 2006, at 01:21, János wrote: >> And it seems to me that "something" is a >> little better than "nothing in particular". >> >> Andrzej Kozlowski >> > > According to Hegel something is a negated nothing or... a > "particular nothing" - particular in that sense that it is negated :) > > Cosmologists love it. They call it "false vacuum". > > /Just kidding/ > > János Now it seems to me that I should have written 'And it seems to me that "something", even 0, is a little better than "nothing in particular".' Leaving Hegel aside, (or wherever he is now, which is either Nowhere or in not a very comfortable place to be) there appears to be something Zen Buddhist about the answer {{}} that Solve returns when given a tautological equation, like: In[1]:= Solve[x==x,{x}] Out[1]= {{}} The answer looks like "nothing", but in some sense it also means "everything". In other words, Nothingness ==The Universe == The Absolute, etc, etc... (I guess that means that the union of {{}} and {{x->0}} ought to be indeed {{}}, except that in this particular problem {{}} was a False Absolute or False Nothingness, oh well...) Andrzej
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- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz@mimuw.edu.pl>
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