jho@ihuxn.UUCP (05/27/84)
I have received the following question from some high school kids
(which I cannot understand). Can someone answer it?
Can something alone be related to itself?
Your responses will be greatly appreciated.
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Yosi Hoshen
Bell Laboratories
Naperville, Illinois
(312)-979-7321
Mail: ihnp4!ihuxn!jhomwm@ea.UUCP (06/01/84)
#R:ihuxn:-69500:ea:9800004:000:267 ea!mwm May 31 16:47:00 1984 /***** ea:net.philosophy / ihuxn!jho / 1:24 pm May 29, 1984 */ Can something alone be related to itself? Yosi Hoshen /* ---------- */ Yup. This vax is networked to itself, and nothing else (at that level), so it's the relation NETWORKED(ea,ea) is true. <mike
ags@pucc-i (Seaman) (06/14/84)
> I have received the following question from some high school kids > (which I cannot understand). Can someone answer it? > > Can something alone be related to itself? Any mathematician will tell you the answer is yes. Consider the identity relation on a singleton set. -- Dave Seaman ..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags "Against people who give vent to their loquacity by extraneous bombastic circumlocution."