<div dir="auto">I mean... I feel like "discovery" if the first challenge for your classification system to justify... ;- )</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 3, 2021, 11:24 AM <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_-751124165042861572WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Colleagues,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Years ago, my daughter, who knows I hate to shop, bought me a bunch of plain T-shirts. The label\u2019s 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\u2019t do one transformation without doing at least one other. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Is this an empirical discovery or a mathematical one? <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I guess it boils down to whether \u201cfront/back\u201d entails in its meaning another transformation. Should we call empirical discoveries \u201cdiscoveries\u201d and mathematical discoveries \u201crevelations\u201d?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Nick <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Nick Thompson<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .<br>
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