Re: Should we be touching goops?

[David Kastrup]

Christopher Heckman <christopher.heckman@asu.edu> writes:

> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Frankly, that's academic.  It reminds me of the excessive amount of
>> energy placed into keeping the mathematics(!) of location vectors and
>> difference vectors separate.
>
> When you ask the question, "What does the sum of two vectors mean?"
> you have to know what they represent, and therein the difference
> actually lies. The numerical computation is, of course, the same.

I guess I am a slide rule guy.  My tools are responsible for doing the
numbers and I am responsible for keeping track of the meaning.
Traditional role models.

-- 
David Kastrup