Francis writes:
> Nothing is completely independent of context: even for mathematical
> formalisms, we need in practice to specify procedures for
> determining the elements of the formalism which are not part of
> the formalism itself.
I *think* that this is true, but am not entirely convinced.
> Nothing is completely dependent on context either, because that
> would mean that each time we encounter it (by definition in a new
> context), it would be so different we would not recognize it as the
> same thing.
No it could be that the contexts themselves are sufficiently similar
(as indeed they seem to be).
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