"inhahe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:... > > "inhahe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:... >> >Ma: Symbolic identity is a mathematical relation >>>Mb: Symbols are acausal >>>m: Matter is causal >>>C: Symbolic identity is not defined on matter. >> > > I do think though that a computer languages claiming operations on > 'identity', as vis a vis 'equivalence', is completely contrived, as in, > it's just an arbitary distinction about the way in which we're going to > compare bits. > >
Although I suppose it counts for something that if a is b, in Python, then the data referenced (at the end of the chain) by those two names occupies the same physical transistors in the RAM module, although that's still a level removed in that the so-called identity would change with time as the electrical condition in the transistors changes. But as far as the transistors being physically the same goes, a is b actually closely corresponds to vernacular identity by way of "reference vs. referent" in the theory of linguistics. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
