conventions/requirements for 'is' vs '==', 'not vs '!=', etc

[inhahe]

"inhahe" <inhahe at gmail.com> wrote in message news:...
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> "inhahe" <inhahe at gmail.com> wrote in message news:...
>> >Ma: Symbolic identity is a mathematical relation
>>>Mb: Symbols are acausal
>>>m: Matter is causal
>>>C: Symbolic identity is not defined on matter.
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> I do think though that a computer languages claiming operations on 
> 'identity', as vis a vis 'equivalence', is completely contrived, as in, 
> it's just an arbitary distinction about the way in which we're going to 
> compare bits.
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Although I suppose it counts for something that if a is b, in Python, then 
the data referenced (at the end of the chain) by those two names occupies 
the same physical transistors in the RAM module, although that's still a 
level removed in that the so-called identity would change with time as the 
electrical condition in the transistors changes.

But as far as the transistors being physically the same goes, a is b 
actually closely corresponds to vernacular identity by way of "reference vs. 
referent" in the theory of linguistics.