To: RightWhale
At the moment, concepts. Maybe not even that. Just objects, items. Something described in a scientific way.It strikes me as something of a paradox, then. "Order" exists only through scientific description, yet what we call "science" seems to have the concept of order at it's very foundation.
606 posted on
08/22/2003 3:50:13 PM PDT by
tacticalogic
(Controlled application of force is the sincerest form of communication.)
To: tacticalogic
Order in math means several different things depending on the type of equation. Generally, it is the value of a number, a quantity as in differential equation of order 1, order 2. Or order gives rise to numbers. In a mathematical set it is a specific sequence where you then have a first element, a second element, an nth element. Order in society isn't a number at all.
608 posted on
08/22/2003 3:57:10 PM PDT by
RightWhale
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