In <pog1wbcuqw.fsf@dogbert.cs.chalmers.se>, Lennart Augustsson
<augustss@cs.chalmers.se> writes:
> ...
>Do you have a problem with reading? :-)
>Matthias Blume wrote "in each and every respect"; how can something
>look the same "in each and every respect" and then be "distinguishable
>when you learn more about them"? If objects can be distinguished when
>you learn more about them then they were not equal in each and every
>respect.
Depends. Often computer programs are set up to model an approximation of
the real world, with some selected attributes of the real world objects
used in the description. Depending on what you model, it might be useful
to distinguish between different objects that are identical in all selected
criteria, if only to answer the question "how many different identical
looking objects do I get with this attribute selection".
Hartmann Schaffer
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