Subject: Re: [HM] Mathematics and Time
From: Barron, Alfred [PRI] (ABARRON@prius.jnj.com)
Date: Thu Mar 09 2000 - 10:31:18 EST
Hamilton may have been influenced by the writings of Kant directly
or through their cultural influence, but it's problematic that a
criteria for either noncommutativity or commutativity follow from
an existential predisposition toward the nature of algebra. What
would have been his argument ?
If he cited algebra as the science of pure time, did he have insight
into its relation to space as well ? This seems most likely.
Al Barron
Metuchen, NJ
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