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Re: Colors of Infinity

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From: pe... Peter Ceresole
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 00:00
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In article <AFC8D061...@hearsay.demon.co.uk>,
slavins@hearsay.demon.co.uk.NOJUNK (Simon Slavin) wrote:

>We invented the fact that 2+2=4 ?  Or that e^(pi*i)=-1 ?  Don't be
>silly.  We figured them out (discovered them) by accident or research.
>Two trees plus two trees made four trees long before humans existed.

Yes. We invented all those things by setting up some axioms. The
relationships that follow were discovered, but only in that we discovered
the consequences of our axioms.

-- 
Peter
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From: pe...@cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole)
Subject: Re: Colors of Infinity
Date: 1997/06/15
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