[FRIAM] Can empirical discoveries be mathematical?

[Eric Charles]

I mean... I feel like "discovery" if the first challenge for your
classification system to justify... ;- )

On Fri, Sep 3, 2021, 11:24 AM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Colleagues,
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> Years ago, my daughter, who knows I hate to shop, bought me a bunch of
> plain T-shirts.  The label’s on the shirts were printed, rather than
> attached, and so have faded.  Each morning, this leaves me with the problem
> of decerning which is the front and which the back of the shirt, and even,
> which the inside and which the out-.  After years of fussing with these
> shirts I decerned a pattern.  Up/down, inside-in/inside-out, left/right,
> front/back, crossed arms/uncrossed arms, you can’t do one transformation
> without doing at least one other.
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> Is this an empirical discovery or a mathematical one?
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> I guess it boils down to whether “front/back” entails in its meaning
> another transformation.   Should we call empirical discoveries
> “discoveries” and mathematical discoveries “revelations”?
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> Nick
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> Nick Thompson
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> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
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> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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