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Originally Posted by chrome noise tape
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is a separate and special entity called 'Identity element'. 0 is actually the identity element under addition for the real numbers, since if a is any real number, a + 0 = 0 + a = a. Mathematicians refers to 0 as the additive identity (or better said, the reflexive identity of addition).
is considered to be a purely imaginary number: 0 is the only complex number which is both real and purely imaginary.
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...wait. i thought that derrida had shown that any given
a is not necessarily self-identical and self-consistent. that is,
a does not necessarily always equal
a. likewise, the law of the excluded middle has been repealed -
a can be simultaneously equal to and not equal to
b.
i look at it as a very heraclitean assertion - say for example that
a is the mississippi river. heraclitus (as i understand it) says that the mississippi river is not self-identical because tommorrow it will be different.