I’m sorry if I don’t understand, but multiplying my debt with a greater debt leads to no debt. It is true as the mathematics show. If we say to the bank, check account A debt and multiply with account B debt, account A will have no debt. It is independent on how you want to phrase it.
What does each operation in your equation represent? “Removing two $2 debts is equal to adding $4”
It is true because the mathematics has to stay consistent, it is based on primordial choices. That’s my point, we choose it this way.
There are elements of math and symbolic reasoning that don’t map to reality, fine. But those parts which DO map well, are pretty strong, and are empirically correct in addition to being symbolically/conventionally well-formed. Mathematics is a mental creation, but that doesn’t make it unrelated to reality—it’s a pretty good and well-tested model of our universe.
As to that picture, the water goes neither up nor down—it’s a still drawing.
So, if I understand right, you think that mathematics is a mental creation and does map well to reality, but it doesn’t make it unrelated to reality. Reality seems to be independent of our maps, and a relation between a map and it would be a mental one. Yet reality is beyond any maps or limits.
Well, the drawing is non-bivalent yet we choose our thinking to be such, as evident towards a lot.
multiplying my debt with a greater debt leads to no debt
You keep ignoring the issue of units. Multiplying dollars by dollars would lead to square dollars, which is a mistake (and not just because dollars are actually rectangular in shape). It is “-2 × $-2”, not “$-2 × $-2″. Money are not multiplied by money. Money are mutliplied by… number of accounts, or number of repetitions, or other dimensionless numbers.
I’m sorry if I don’t understand, but multiplying my debt with a greater debt leads to no debt. It is true as the mathematics show. If we say to the bank, check account A debt and multiply with account B debt, account A will have no debt. It is independent on how you want to phrase it.
What does each operation in your equation represent? “Removing two $2 debts is equal to adding $4”
It is true because the mathematics has to stay consistent, it is based on primordial choices. That’s my point, we choose it this way.
So, if I understand right, you think that mathematics is a mental creation and does map well to reality, but it doesn’t make it unrelated to reality. Reality seems to be independent of our maps, and a relation between a map and it would be a mental one. Yet reality is beyond any maps or limits.
Well, the drawing is non-bivalent yet we choose our thinking to be such, as evident towards a lot.
You keep ignoring the issue of units. Multiplying dollars by dollars would lead to square dollars, which is a mistake (and not just because dollars are actually rectangular in shape). It is “-2 × $-2”, not “$-2 × $-2″. Money are not multiplied by money. Money are mutliplied by… number of accounts, or number of repetitions, or other dimensionless numbers.