John Edser wrote:
>>>JE:-
>>>Also, I have no idea what
>>>"separate  sets don't" was 
>>>actually referring 
>>>to in your previous reply.
>>
> 
>>BOH:-
>>Try reading it as an answer to your post.  I'm saying that separate sets 
>>don't intersect.
> 
> 
>>JE:-
>>Would _please_ write out (as I
>>_previously_ requested) the definition 
>>you said I had given, and then derive 
>>from that definition "that separate sets 
>>don't intersect"  so we can understand 
>>what exactly you are referring to.
> 
> 
> BOH:-
>  From the 7th of November:
> "Absolutely separate sets are NOT intersected with any other set."
> 
> JE:-
> Note that this does not exclude
> absolutely separate sets from
> intersecting.
> 
How can they intersect if they are not intersecting?  You're not making 
any sense.

> 
>>JE:-
>>I agree that absolute separate
>>sets don't intersect. Do you agree
>>that absolute separate sets can however,
>>contain the same type of set element?
> 
> 
> BOH:- 
> I've never had any problem with that - it's your claim that they contain 
> the same actual elements (i.e. that they have a non-empty intersection) 
> that I have trouble with.
> 
> JE:-
> Intersecting sets only contain the same
> _type_ of element. I have never claimed
> they contain the same actual elements.
> 
Alas, you have by claiming that you're using the usual mathematical 
concept of intersection.  If you're not doing this, then please 
acknowledge this and tell us what your definition is.

If you want some proof that I'm using the accepted definition of 
fitness, then look at these sites:
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci838379,00.html>
http://www.shu.edu/projects/reals/logic/defs/sets.html>
http://www.quantnotes.com/fundamentals/backgroundmaths/settheory.htm>
(definition 2)

Bob

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