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Is it madness, or genius? - Edit 1

Before modification by aerocontrols at 19/04/2017 03:35:30 PM

I don't think a very good case can be made for genius - are you trolling us?

You begin with this:

Before you read any of this, understand this is hard to put into words for I am trying to define something without a reference to itself

Gotcha. This is a tough task you've set yourself and you acknowledge it will be difficult to put into words. Therefore you will try extra hard to be clear, right?

Aka we have the greeks prior to Plato / Aristotle, than the Hellenstic and subsequent Roman people which happen after Aristotle and Alexander the Great, and then the Stuff after the forming of the modern church and the fall of the city of Rome in 476 AD, and then a 1000 years later whatever inflection point you pick which is the concept of Zero, or Descartes and his work, Newton and his work, or Hobbes and his work, and so on.

1) This paragraph would be more clear if it were several sentences. Why not break it up?

2) Capitalization. You've avoided capitalizing the entire acronym AKA for some reason. You've chosen to capitalize the word 'Stuff' for some reason. You've chosen not to capitalize 'greeks' for some reason.

3) This paragraph begins with the acronym AKA. It's not clear why to me. If I said 'Bruce Wayne, AKA Batman, everyone would understand. In your formulation, what is taking the place of Bruce Wayne, and what is meant to be Batman. Some concept in the previous paragraph is meant to also be known as some concept in the current paragraph, perhaps?

4) I don't agree that any of the people you mention in the sentence/paragraph is necessarily a best or even a good source on the subject of zero from a mathematical or philosophical standpoint, but I can't claim to have studied zero as a concept beyond knowing how to use it to solve engineering problems. Do you think that you will find such an expert here?

5) The rest of your post is similar - an impenetrable wall of text whose purpose is clear "Help me understand the concept of zero more deeply" but the implication of what you're written is that you've already studied it too deeply without sufficient understanding of the base concepts to enable you to leave the shallow end of the pool.

I'm sorry I can't be more help but the original post appears to be more likely the result of a postmodern essay generator than the musings of a coherent mind.

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