Re: The Road with no Branches argument

From: 1Z (peterdjones_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/02/04 

Date: 2 Nov 2004 07:58:45 -0800

"Milan" <mtklima@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<2uo1usF2d47ceU1@uni-berlin.de>...
> "1Z" <peterdjones@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:fd762132.0411010659.47b5ccc2@posting.google.com...
> > "Milan" <mtklima@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<2uicrfF2bh69dU1@uni-
> >
> > > Classical mechanics is completely deterministic.
> >
> > But the universe isn't, which is one of the reasons why classical
> mechanics
> > was superseded. It survives only as a useful approximation, so you can't
> > argue to determinism -- even effective determinism at certain levels --
> from it.
>
> But that wasnt the point, was it?

What was ?

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