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Topic: elements
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abstraction by common attributes
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atoms and molecules
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boolean values, binary numbers, and bit strings
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continuum in mathematics
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entities
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geometry
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infinity and infinitesimal
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metaphysics and epistemology
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objects as a set of attributes
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set definition by extension or intension
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units
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what is a number
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what is truth
Summary
Elements are the primitive components or abstractions of a system. They are not analyzed further. Elements may be combined into more complex things. For example, atoms of hydrogen and oxygen combine to form water, while phonemes of speech combine to form syllables, words, and sentences.The elements of meaning are elusive. Meaning derives from abstractions, simularities, and relationships; it continually evolves. Are numbers the elements of meaning? (cbb 6/06)
Subtopic: combination of elements
Quote: elements can not be analyzed further; e.g., a syllable of speech; if divided, its parts are the same as in water [»aris_322a] Quote: elements are unknowable; while complexes are knowable and explicable via written letters Quote: the elements are of eternal stuff, linked with bonds of different strengths; unless a strong enough force encounters it, a thing stays safely as it was [»lucr_55] Quote: nothing turns to nothing; all things decompose back to the elemental particles from which they arose Quote: it is faster to break something down than to make it again; so there must be a limit, allowing each thing to be made anew [»lucr_55]
Subtopic: knowledge of elements
Quote: many things have common elements; as words share letters [»lucr_55] Quote: the most elementary things form other things by combination; minute-particled and the subtlest of bodies [»aris_322a] Quote: elements have only a name; combine names into descriptions of complex things [»plat_368] Quote: the most elementary things form other things by combination; minute-particled and the subtlest of bodies [»aris_322a]
Subtopic: knowledge as interconnected elements
Quote: knowledge of the elements in a complex is clearer and more effective than knowing the complex without knowing its elements [»plat_368]
Subtopic: physical elements
Quote: a poor way to form concepts is through a list of characteristics; instead the elements of a definition are richly interconnected [»fregG_1884]
Subtopic: elements of language
Quote: wood is a fossil of a tree, iron is a fossil of a thermonuclear reaction, elementary particles are fossils of the big bang [»ferrT9_1982]
Subtopic: geometric elements
Quote: the connotation of an element is the set of similarities noted by hearers of the language about its semantic regularities in the language [»ziffP_1960] Quote: what a speaker means and what an element connotes to a hearer admit of enormous latitude [»ziffP_1960] Quote: determine if an element has a meaning by its distributive set and contrastive set in the corpus [»ziffP_1960] Quote: a 'notion' is an element of the content of a person's attitude given by a that-clause; a that-clause 'ascribes' 'attributions' (attitudes and notions) [»burgT_1979]
Subtopic: abstraction as element
Quote: a line is a sequence of elements such that each cannot be distinguished from its predecessor [»poinH_1902, OK]
Subtopic: number as element
Quote: using an abstraction is same as using a basic element; but within abstraction have full power of the language [»hehnEC_1977a, OK]
Subtopic: elements not important
Quote: Pythagoreans saw numbers as the primary natures, the elements of all things; including justice, soul, mind, musical modes, relations, heaven [»aris_322a]
Quote: any definition is divisible Quote: deal with all elements of a set via the set's definition and not the elements themselves [»dijkEW12_1989] Quote: with Bongard problems, context determines the objects; objects do not exist independent of their understanding
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Topic: abstraction by common attributes (19 items)
Topic: atoms and molecules (57 items)
Topic: boolean values, binary numbers, and bit strings (44 items)
Topic: continuum in mathematics (7 items)
Topic: entities (20 items)
Topic: geometry (33 items)
Topic: infinity and infinitesimal (37 items)
Topic: metaphysics and epistemology (99 items)
Topic: objects as a set of attributes (39 items)
Topic: set definition by extension or intension (18 items)
Topic: units (23 items)
Topic: what is a number (55 items)
Topic: what is truth
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