David:
I am not trying to find the opposite of a clock because such a thing does not exist. I was saying that most everything that exists in reality has no opposite. The clock was just one example.
Jack:
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Originally posted by Jack Simth:
If you apply set notation and treat opposite as complement, then the opposite of a clock would be the set of (all objects union all non-objects) which are not in the set of (all clocks).
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How did discrete mathematics wind up in this? It doesn't apply! We were talking about a clock, not a set that contains a clock. A clock is not a set, so set notation can not be applied to a clock itself. 
[ April 16, 2003, 00:08: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]