Re: Intersecting Sets Of Fitness!Q

>>BOH:- 
>> From the first site:
>>"Given two sets A and B, the intersection of A and B, written A INT B, 
>>is the set C of all elements that are in both A and B."
>> From the second site:
>>"A INT B: A intersection B is the set of all elements that are in both 
>>sets A and B."
>> From the third site:
>>"Intersection - Denotes the set of elements that are members of all the 
>>sets under consideration."
>>(I've written INT for the intersection symbol, as it doesn't appear in 
>>ASCII).

>>JE:-
>>Only _equivalent_ set elements are in n set
>>intersections and not "the same" set element.

> BOH:-
> Having given you the quotes, I was hoping you would actually comment on 
> them, rather than continue on about equivalence.  It's simply not a 
> matter of whether elements are equivalent - it's whether a matter of 
> which sets that are members of.

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> JE:-
> I have commented on the quotes, in detail.
> For example, "set C of all elements that 
> are in both A and B" means that all the
> set elements in the intersection C are strictly
> _equivalent_ elements and not just elements
> from one set, i.e not "the same" elements.

BOH:-
This is opaque to me.  Are you saying that the elements in the 
intersection C are not also in sets A and B?

JE:-
The concept of equivalence is simple.
Two things may be defined equivalent.
This does not make them the one, same,
thing, but it does mean either of them
can represent the other. All I am saying 
is that the elements in intersection C are equivalent
set elements to the set elements in set A and B.

When sets of total parental fitness intersect,
the fitness elements in the intersection are
equivalent fitness elements. The intersection
of these absolute parental fitness sets does not 
alter anything about each set, but it does allow
the total fitness of each parent within the 
same population to be compared with every other, 
without cognition. From this purely mechanical
comparison, all the orders of natural selection
are exactly predicted. 

John Edser
Independent Researcher

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