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summary is about our meeting on Oct. 7th.
For that Tuesday our homework was to think of
3-4 categories, which we could use in class to categorize the different
manifestations of infinity.
During the first part of class we wrote our
categories on the board and by the time everyone finished we ended up with 22 categories. Surprisingly, some of them were different from one another but
others were quite similar.
During the second part of class we tried to group the
categories to limit their numbers and as it turned out the organization of them was quite
difficult. We argued about which ones are similar, which ones should we keep and which ones are subcategories of others. One of the major argument we had involved nature
and life. Some of us thought nature is not a necessary category, because
manifestations which belong to nature can be part of others as well. However,
others in the class thought that nature and life are important categories
because they represent certain manifestations better than any other categories.
At the end of class we ended up with only five categories; abstract, concrete,
formal, measure and life. As our next homework we had to categorize the
manifestations of infinity using the five different categories. As it turns out
the five categories might be still too much, because most of us could fit some
manifestations of infinity into more than one category.
Should we limit our categories maybe only to 3? And if yes, which categories should we keep and which ones we should not?
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