Chronology | Current Month | Current Thread | Current Date |
[Year List] [Month List (current year)] | [Date Index] [Thread Index] | [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] | [Date Prev] [Date Next] |
>Actually my primary
>query was regarding a definition of 'handedness' independent of both
>specific examples and mirrors.
It is impossible to define "right-handedness" and "left-handedness"
without reference to a specific example.
And, given the constraints of your query, it also appears impossible
to define "handedness" since you seem to exclude any definition
referencing examples from geometry, chemistry, astronomy, particle
physics, etc.
In particular, the "triplet of directions" definition seems too
specific an example even though it only assumes knowledge of what
"perpendicular" means (and a three-dimensional Euclidean space)