I contaminated myself because I thought it was a weird question by itself and had a smell of the answer being embedded in the context. In general “Does this analysis miss anything? I have not included analysis to avoid bias” isn’t really an answerable question.
One of the tricks ot ponder on meanings is to wonder what the meaning stands in opposition to. To me it seems the statement plays the role of “enumerating the positions is not a fruitful way of approaching handling of positions” and if it is not enumerable then by theorycrafting it is probably some kind of infinity. And the example “proof” seems to be that for any proposal enumerating scheme you can take a position, apply a small mutator and end up with a position that is not covered by the original enumeration. A weaker versions results if only “”unlikely to be already enumerated”.
Taking the logic a bit further it seems that the problem is already in “this position” where the pointing “this” can be ambigious in microparameters where trying to point to “one” position actually results in pointing to a whole class of positions. Thus “counting” positions is problematic and not really needed if we just want to undertand positions and their parameters/positions. So rather than there being a great many number of them an analysis is employed where we do not number them.
A similar thing could be made with water/ice. If you have icecubes it might make sense to count them. However if you have a cup of water or a block of ice it would be unnatural to place a integer amount to describe amount of water (althought with connection to avocadros number there probably is such a number) but neither it would make sense to say that a cup of water contains “infinite” amount of water. One might still care about big cup of water vs small cup of water. However the uncountable sense of size is not directly related to the countable sense of size (measure one in liters and one in objects).
The question was meant to be about the validity of a statement that I was making. A genuine question, was the answer embedded? I was hoping for fresh thoughts and clearer vocab—and I’ve got some.
Innumerable positions. Feels much better, thank you.
I’m still missing the defining of position. Interesting the water/ice analogy. Moving though innumerable positions should be fluid. I want to say a duality, in something—but i don’t know what I mean by that yet.
I contaminated myself because I thought it was a weird question by itself and had a smell of the answer being embedded in the context. In general “Does this analysis miss anything? I have not included analysis to avoid bias” isn’t really an answerable question.
One of the tricks ot ponder on meanings is to wonder what the meaning stands in opposition to. To me it seems the statement plays the role of “enumerating the positions is not a fruitful way of approaching handling of positions” and if it is not enumerable then by theorycrafting it is probably some kind of infinity. And the example “proof” seems to be that for any proposal enumerating scheme you can take a position, apply a small mutator and end up with a position that is not covered by the original enumeration. A weaker versions results if only “”unlikely to be already enumerated”.
Taking the logic a bit further it seems that the problem is already in “this position” where the pointing “this” can be ambigious in microparameters where trying to point to “one” position actually results in pointing to a whole class of positions. Thus “counting” positions is problematic and not really needed if we just want to undertand positions and their parameters/positions. So rather than there being a great many number of them an analysis is employed where we do not number them.
A similar thing could be made with water/ice. If you have icecubes it might make sense to count them. However if you have a cup of water or a block of ice it would be unnatural to place a integer amount to describe amount of water (althought with connection to avocadros number there probably is such a number) but neither it would make sense to say that a cup of water contains “infinite” amount of water. One might still care about big cup of water vs small cup of water. However the uncountable sense of size is not directly related to the countable sense of size (measure one in liters and one in objects).
The question was meant to be about the validity of a statement that I was making. A genuine question, was the answer embedded? I was hoping for fresh thoughts and clearer vocab—and I’ve got some.
Innumerable positions. Feels much better, thank you.
I’m still missing the defining of position. Interesting the water/ice analogy. Moving though innumerable positions should be fluid. I want to say a duality, in something—but i don’t know what I mean by that yet.