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

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, Mark and Jochen.

On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 7:58 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah, Jochen, check your answer against the question. And, yes, a wonderful
> joke.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > 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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