[FRIAM] Can empirical discoveries be mathematical?

[Barry MacKichan]

Well, your discovery was certainly empirical.

The explanation is mathematical, having to do what you can do with an 
oriented surface. BTW, did you take a picture when you put it on upside 
down? I can visualize a couple of ways you could have done that, but if 
you weren’t doing hand stands the pictures are not pretty.

—Barry

On 3 Sep 2021, at 11:23, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:

> Colleagues,
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> Is this an empirical discovery or a mathematical one?
>
>
>
> 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"?
>
>
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> Nick Thompson
>
> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com <mailto:ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com>
>
> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/


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