This post feel surprisingly insight-bringing to me because the “associative property” can in a sense be considered the “insignificance of parentheses”… and hence both the insignificance of groupings, and the lack of the need to define a starting point of calculation… and in turn these concepts feel connected to the concepts of reductionism and relativity...
This post feel surprisingly insight-bringing to me because the “associative property” can in a sense be considered the “insignificance of parentheses”… and hence both the insignificance of groupings, and the lack of the need to define a starting point of calculation… and in turn these concepts feel connected to the concepts of reductionism and relativity...