Re: AtD translation: the thing about a Quaternion ‘is’ is that

[Mark Kohut]

Yes.

On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 5:18 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> P538.38-539.3   “Cambridge personality Bertie (‘Mad Dog’) Russell
> observed,” observed Barry Nebulay, “that most of Hegel’s arguments come
> down to puns on the word ‘is.’ In that sense the thing about a Quaternion
> ‘is’ is that we’re obliged to encounter it in more than one guise.  As a
> vector quotient. As a way of plotting complex numbers along three axes
> instead of two. As a list of instructions for turning one vector into
> another.”
>
> So in this sentence, the word "Quaternion" is supposed to be a modifier for
> the word " 'is' ", is that correct?
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