(April 23, 2016 at 9:47 am)Nihilist Virus Wrote:(April 23, 2016 at 7:49 am)SteveII Wrote: You are not assigning anything. If the device turns on and performs, then you have a computer. If it does not turn on, you have a pile of pieces --each with their own properties. Perhaps you are confusing assigning a word to describe a property. There are hundreds of word in other languages that all mean computer. The property of being a computer transcends all of those.
The constituent parts of the material were unable to perform mathematical processes until I assembled them. The constituent parts did not have the property of being able to perform mathematical operations. Now they do. Are you saying the constituent parts always had this property? If yes, can you explain how that makes sense?
You are confusing creating something with assigning it properties. They are not the same thing. For example, if you very carefully carved a cubes out of block of wood -- you created a cube. You did not assign the properties (wooden, cube, x volume, brown, etc.). Additionally, that block of wood used to (but no more) have the property of being a tree.
