Friday, April 19, 2013

Comfortable/Unconfortable concepts

Let's suppose we try to define a concept in mathematics like this:
A set of integers is Moustierian if it contains the integers 6823807439 and 523098064.
I just made this up using random numbers of course, but I would be hiding this from my listener.

In a way it is a trivial but the person that is given this concept will not feel that this is a comfortable concept because he/she will be wondering where on earth did I get those numbers from?
And where did I get that strange name?
So there will be a number of hanging questions, which are like weights attached.

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