Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Better ...

Ideas imposed to us...

After a chat with one of my friends, I dived into the meaning of "better". Better, better, better something is better, that is better etc. The word itself is really /comparative/\relative/ to something. Simply the relation (I call it a relation) better is :
Better(A,B) = {A and B are the elements of the same domain say SomeExistence, A is preferred to B}

or

Better(A,B) = {A and B are the elements of the same domain say SomeExistence, B is worse than A}

or
...

You can increase the alternative definitions. A simple look to the above definitions reveal some other relations "preferred" and "worse". These relations can be defined by some other relations which breed new relations to be defined. At the end, there should be a base relation that is, in my humble opinion, an assumption. So do we know is this assumption is truely selected? What if our assumption is wrong? Then all things we say better are actually were worse?

At this point, human dimension of "better" comes up to my mind. A good point... If I say something is better for me, is this true for all people? No, some can say yes, some others say no, and there are abstainers (asking us why we called them :)). So the generalization of this dimension (human) constitutes the relativity property of the "better". Briefly, one better is worse for someone, or it's not preferred.

So, please tell me what is better...?

To be continued...