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[Moonbear]@prostar.com (Shea F. Kenny) writes:

>The following message from wo...@berlin.snafu.de (Wolfgang Schwanke),
>tested positive for the threadmonella virus:
>}msn...@mindspring.com (Michael Snider) writes:
>}This is getting difficult you know.
>}We did not only invent numbers, we also invented the concepts "circle",
>}"radius" and equation for that matter, of which you just cited an example.
>}Of course, once we have all these definitions, we can then play
>}"discover the laws", but the laws depend on what you defined previously.

>	Yes, it must be very difficult for you.  You're talking
>nonsense, first of all.  Geometry came from building things.  They
>learned how to measure things to get definite shapes, thus stronger
>and more appealing structures.  Then they could build anything they
>wanted. First on paper, and the math transferred to reality.

You're correct. Now tell me how that contradicts anything I ever said.
Except that bit:

>These are observations, not inventions.

That assertion cannot be deduced from the previous paragraph.

Greetings

wolfgang

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