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RE: [jboske] Re: Counting Nick



Nick:
> --- In jboske@yahoogroups.com, "And Rosta" <a.rosta@l...> wrote:
> > In my ontology, Nick is what I have been calling Substance
> > In Nick's terms, he is, I think, Atom rather than Stuff.
>
> Eeyup
>
> > But how many Nick are there? What would it be like for
> > there to be, say, three Nick, and by what criteria would
> > they count as Nick? Maybe if I could answer that question,
> > I would decide that there are three Nick, or more likely
> > that there are ci'ipa Nick. But when I think of Nick,
> > am I really quantifying over ci'ipa moments of Nick?
> > Intuitively it doesn't feel like I am. But I'm quite
> > happy to say that su'o da, a Bit of Spacetime, is Nick
>
> Say it, And, say it. Nick is unquantified, and so is Gold
>
> > So all in all, I feel that the cardinality of Nick is
> > Mr Number (or perhaps Mr Za'uno, because I CAN tell the
> > difference between Nick and no Nick), and the same goes for,
> > say, gold. If I look at that which is gold, it is similarly
> > impossible to count it.
> >
> > I can count moments of Nick and bits of gold, but I
> > can't count Nick or gold
>
> Bingo. Bingo Bingo Bingo. Nick is a Kind of Atom, and gold is a Kind of Stuff
>
> We have our solution!

See the message I've just sent off. If we can distinguish between
intensional kinds and 'extensional kinds' -- "that which is Mr Broda",
"that which realizes Mr Broda" -- then all is okay.

The notion of 'Extensional kinds' doesn't work for countables, only
for uncountables. That's why I've been calling this notion
'Substance'.

--And.