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Re: Colors of Infinity

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From: ba... John Bayko
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 00:00
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In article <5nr8jt$gia$1...@unlisys.unlisys.net>,
    Wolfgang Schwanke <wo...@berlin.snafu.de> wrote:
>ba...@pollux.cs.uregina.ca (John  Bayko) writes:
>
>>>Relationships existed, but they're not mathematical.
>>>You confuse our model of talking about the real world with that
>>>real world.
>
>>    You're confusing things here - mathematics isn't a model of the
>>world. Physics tends to fill that role, and it uses math heavily
>>because it's useful in that context,
>
>This is picking on words, you're saying the same thin I did.

    I'm being picky because the wording is where misunderstanding
usually happens. It's like saying that they study of poetry is the
same as the study of poems - poetry explores the ways in which
things can be expressed, even novel ways which haven't been explored
yet, while poems are only what *has* been expressed already.

--
John Bayko (Tau).
ba...@cs.uregina.ca
http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~bayko
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From: ba...@borealis.cs.uregina.ca (John  Bayko)
Subject: Re: Colors of Infinity
Date: 1997/06/14
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