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Re: DRAFT position paper



Arnold Neumaier wrote:
Nate Hayes wrote:
For those that may be interested, attached is the current draft of the position paper John referred to.

Nate Hayes wrote:

> we propose an
> alternative, including by Proposition 1 (Motion 18) to make the
distinction
> between 1/0 and 1/Empty with decorations D_1 and D_0,

But your scheme fails to make a distinction between 1+1/0 and 1+1/Empty,
so your decorations for this distinction cannot be relied upon in a
longer calculation.

My scheme reports that both 1+1/0 and 1+1/Empty are ill-formed, as it should be:

1/0 is undefined, and 1+undefined is ill-formed (as is 1/Empty).

Nate Hayes