--- shabs du wah <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The propositional function is simply (intrinsic value = (x,y) where X=
> substitution probability & Y = non-substitution). Where the function
> increases the greatest is when both x and y are positive (obviously) but
I don't follow this. The following is not a function
intrinsic value = (x,y) where x is substitution probability and y is
non-substitution.
(x,y) is an ordered pair (remember the Cartesian coordinate system in high
school?). Further, if both x and y are probabilities (this is not clear
in the definition of this "function") then it is trivial that it is at its
greatest value when both x and y are positive considering that x and y are
from the set [0,1]. However, since we are not dealing with a function
(see _An Introduction to Mathematical Analysis_ by Lewin and Lewin, 1988
for a definition of a function) all the statements about a function are
irrelevant.
> we
> do not as yet have an empirical fit for the function, so we have to be
> satisfied with the pure axiomatic function. Whatever operator is used to
> express the relationship of the X to Y there is a great deal of
What? An operator, mathematical speaking, takes an element from one set
and maps it into another (or more correctly an operator takes an element
from one vector space and maps it to another vector space). For example,
linear operators such as the Lebegue Integral. Since we are not dealing
with a mapping such a statement doesn't make sense.
Steve
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