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

[Mark Kohut]

Ah, Jochen, check your answer against the question. And, yes, a wonderful joke. 

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> On Jun 20, 2021, at 7:32 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> No, no, it's supposed to be a modifier for the word 'is'.
> 
> (And it's not only correct, it's a joke, too. Bertie would call it a pun,
> obviously. )
> 
>> Am So., 20. Juni 2021 um 12:11 Uhr schrieb Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com
>>> :
>> 
>> 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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