Re: 4D conlang [Was: Re: I'm back!]
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 22, 2004, 2:04 |
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On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 03:13:15PM -0700, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Considering that a 4D being would necessarily see in 3D (i.e., have a
> 3D retina), this seems to lead me to just 4 pairs of directions:
Exactly so.
> up/down, left/right, front/back, "in"/"out" (or whatever you call
> it... this is different from being actually "inside" or "outside" a 4D
> volume).
The terms I've most often heard for the extra two directions along the extra
spatial dimension in fourspace are "ana" and "cata" - presumably the same
as the prefixes in e.g. anaphoric and cataphoric.
-Marcos
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