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Search to breakthrough a "simple " semantic barrier.

There is an surprisingly unrealized need for an absolute definition of the word asymptotic.
One which will universally apply to all society's behaviour and conflict resolution.
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, seized upon what he found to be a "the diabolically tantalizing" fact that "the enigma of asymptotic infinity" is a mathematical concept operative everywhere not just in the logic of mathematics. He understood this simple algebra, all his adult life, only latterly, to confront the subtle reality of its being a universally conceptual absolute. It should, therefore, not be surprising that it has escaped general comprehension.
The asymptotic aspect of all society's event evolutions is generally unrecognized. No language exists to decode the enigma of asymptotic infinity. An example only, not to restrict the generality, is the language ambiguity of the phrase "war on terrorism" so inaccurately and excessively used currently.
Its connotation is an impenetrable semantic barrier due inability to distinguish asymptotically arbitrary language from impossible definition.
Is it possible that a clear definition of asymptotic infinity can be found to describe the essential component of the otherwise simple analysis of the legitimate argument that there is always one more squeeze in a tube of toothpaste? Awareness of this missing cognitive ingredient could revolutionize conflict resolution.

Maybe impossible is the operative word accepting that infinity has escaped classical philosophical elucidation.
  

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[nq:1]There is an surprisingly unrealized need for an absolute definition of the word asymptotic. [/nq] This would of course be a metaphorical application, since asymptotic is a characteristic of curves and "behavior and conflict resolution" seem not intrisically curved: our problem then becomes that no adjective (that I can think of) is defined "absolutely" by its application as a metaphor. [nq:1]The asymptotic aspect of all society's event evolutions is generally unrecognized.

  • [nq:1]There is an surprisingly unrealized need for an absolute definition of the word asymptotic.
  • [/nq] This would of course be a metaphorical application, since asymptotic is a characteristic of curves and "behavior and conflict resolution" seem not intrisically curved: our problem then becomes that no adjective (that I can think of) is defined "absolutely" by its application as a metaphor.
  • [nq:1]The asymptotic aspect of all society's event evolutions is generally unrecognized.
  • No language exists to decode the enigma of asymptotic infinity.
  • [/nq] Derek Price of Yale wrote illuminatingly about logistic growth curves as early as in the 1960s.
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[nq:1]There is an surprisingly unrealized need for an absolute definition of the word asymptotic. One which will universally apply to all society's behaviour and conflict resolution.[/nq]
This would of course be a metaphorical application, since asymptotic is a characteristic of curves and "behavior and conflict resolution" seem not intrisically curved: our problem then becomes that no adjecti
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This post is fust to try to draw emphasis to its unregognized importance.

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