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<blockquote data-quote="Klintus Fang" data-source="post: 154588" data-attributes="member: 3580"><p>Being a person who has a lot of mathematical training I tend to think of planes of existence in topological terms.</p><p></p><p>But that aside, the problem I have with the "planar descriptions" document occurrs at a relatively basic level: the definitions of dimension and space. These are basic untuitive concepts that already have very specific meanings. Redifining them as you do makes it no longer possible to use the words for what they already mean. </p><p></p><p>I mean if you redefine the word dimension to mean: an infinite plane that has no beginning and no end. Then all of a sudden simple common sense statements like "the world in which I live has 3 dimensions" become nonsensical, because the world in which I live does not have "3 infinite planes that have no beginning and no end".</p><p></p><p>The same is true of space. If "space" means "a near infinite plane...". Then a statement like: "the space inside my swimming pool is filled with water", makes no sense. Because there is not a "near infinite plane" inside my swimming pool.</p><p></p><p>So my first suggesting is: don't use basic common sense words that already have specific meanings as the basis for your new terminology. Better to leave those words alone and use new words or phrases that don't already have specific meanings instead.</p><p></p><p>just my 2 cents.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Klintus Fang, post: 154588, member: 3580"] Being a person who has a lot of mathematical training I tend to think of planes of existence in topological terms. But that aside, the problem I have with the "planar descriptions" document occurrs at a relatively basic level: the definitions of dimension and space. These are basic untuitive concepts that already have very specific meanings. Redifining them as you do makes it no longer possible to use the words for what they already mean. I mean if you redefine the word dimension to mean: an infinite plane that has no beginning and no end. Then all of a sudden simple common sense statements like "the world in which I live has 3 dimensions" become nonsensical, because the world in which I live does not have "3 infinite planes that have no beginning and no end". The same is true of space. If "space" means "a near infinite plane...". Then a statement like: "the space inside my swimming pool is filled with water", makes no sense. Because there is not a "near infinite plane" inside my swimming pool. So my first suggesting is: don't use basic common sense words that already have specific meanings as the basis for your new terminology. Better to leave those words alone and use new words or phrases that don't already have specific meanings instead. just my 2 cents. [/QUOTE]
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