ᎢᏂᎬ ḬṢ ộ℉ ℹⅆⅇήᵀᴵᴛɎ Whenever I use the word is, except in sheer tautology, I deeply misuse it. to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing at all ❝Object identity is a frail reed on which to rely. A. Korzybski, engineer extraordinaire, had choice words on the subject of the is of identity (an expression he credits to mathematician W. S. Jevons), but G. Santayana had already remarked that Whenever I use the word is, except in sheer tautology, I deeply misuse it, and L. von Wittgenstein, another contemporary engineer of notice, had similarly (but, characteristically, more analytically and verbosely) observed to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing at all.❞ —aleax.it/5ep.html Borg in Python But, of course, it is even easier in Python (isnt it always?): class Borg: ----_shared_state = {} ----def __init__(self): --------self.__dict__ = self._shared_state
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:14:55 +0000
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