Conceptual conversions
| Concept in Metaphysics | Concept in Maths | Concept in Code | as Heuristic | or else |
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| Type 1 | Set 2 | Class | Apples | A description, sufficiently generalised to fit every member of a set. |
| Token | Element | Object | An apple | An instance that satisfies that description. |
| Subtype | Subset | Subclass | Granny Smiths | A more specialised description, covering only some of the first set. |
| Relation | Relation | Association | e.g. Between an apple and Newton's lying mouth. | Logical connection of any sort. |
| Essence | Condition | Interface | Apples implement seeds. | Sine qua non |
| Concept | Boolean function | Classifier | "Is the star apple an apple? No; it is not of the genus malum." | A process for identifying kinds of things. |
| Noumenon | N/A | Model | Der Apfel-an-Sich. | The entities as they are themselves |
| 'Structure' | FORM | Controller | Eh. | The formal shape and relations of a system - what the noumenal and phenomenal share. |
| Phenomenon | Particular expression? | View | The cuticle? No; the secondary properties. | What is perceived of an entity. |
| Propositional function | Function | Pure function | "Apples can be mapped to oranges via the following CRISPR program..." | A machine for pairing inputs with outputs. |
| Universal | Abstraction | Abstraction | "The apple: a noble fruit." | Zoomed-out view of some collection; defining properties shown. |
| Property | Variable | Attribute | Apples can be clones. | Something about a thing. |
| Inherence | Predication | Attribution 3 | This apple is a clone | Changing the nature of a thing (or only making an assertion about it (...)) |
| Individuation | Evaluation | Assignment | Billionth clone of the Orange Pippin cultivar (UK NFC 2000-008). | To give a definite meaning to some function. |
| Primitive | Primitive | Primitive | "Why? Why? Why? Why?" "Because" | Thing which can't be defined in terms of other things. Or isn't. |
Tenuous
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| Complex idea | Family | Inner class | Apple with a teratoma? | A set which includes another set as member. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Supervenience | Asymmetric dependency | Coupling</a>? Emergence?</td> | An apple supervenes on the electrostatic forces of its constituents.^^</td> Euch.
</tr> | ? | Domain and | codomain Type | ?. | Spec of valid input and output values. | Composition? | Participation? "A mere | application" Aggregation | The apple has | carbon molecules. Relation such that one | thing (apple) contingently 'has' a set of other things (carbon, etc). Constitutive | essence ≡ ? | Composition | Apple has an | endocarp, mesocarp and exocarp. Strongest aggregation: | parts are fully contingent on the whole. Heraclitean | stage theory ? | 'Immutable' | pattern ? | Nothing survives change; | all changed things are wholly new objects. </table> </div> </div> </div>
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