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Re: [lojban] Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis



In a message dated 6/12/2001 7:43:31 PM Central Daylight Time,
njs@uclink4.berkeley.edu writes:


I don't know much about Robinson's infinitesmals; they're interesting
partly because he (and others) went through and redeveloped a whole
theory of calculus and analysis where dx/dy really does mean dividing
an infinitesmal by another infinitesmal... the book at hand mentions:


It's been forty years since I had that class with Robinson.  As I recall, you
got the models by infinite copies of the number system ordered like the
negative integers or some such thing.  Details float back from time to time,
but not the connected whole.