What is a Thing?
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Martin Heidegger is the author of the book[1] titled:"What is a Thing". In the paper[2] under the same name, Heidegger was quoted:
From the range of the basic questions of metaphysics we shall here ask this one question: What is a thing? The question is quite old. What remains ever new about it is merely that it must be asked again and again.
A transition to formalism
Jean Pierre Marquis talks about how Bourbaki group started to represent a thing structurally[3]
Symmetry and Relations
To realize why Double Entry Bookkeeping is grounded in many profound ideas, one may start with Yoneda Lemma, a concept that can be summarized as Tai-Danae Bradley's statements on her blog[4]:
1. Mathematical objects are completely determined by their relationships to other objectsCite error: Invalid<ref>tag; invalid names, e.g. too many. 2. The properties of a mathematical object are more important than its definitionCite error: Invalid<ref>tag; invalid names, e.g. too many.
The two statements above show that Double-Entry Bookkeeping is a numeric version of content invariance/symmetry over time.
References
- ↑ Heidegger, Martin (1967). What is a Thing?. local page: Regenery/Gateway.
- ↑ Döring, A.; Isham, C. (2010). "What is a Thing?". local page: 753–937. ISBN 978-3-642-12821-9.
- ↑ Marquis, Jean Pierre (Dec 8, 2019). Bourbaki, Categories and Structuralism, Jean Pierre Marquis. local page: Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.
- ↑ The Yoneda Perspective by Tai-Danae Bradley