Re: Is this math test too easy?

From: ArtflDodgr (artfldodgr_at_aol.com)
Date: 11/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:25:53 -0800

In article <93k5q0p7es1dpbt7e2upljfods2gdp723r@4ax.com>,
 Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Herman Rubin writes:
>
> > One cannot do critical thinking to any real extent without
> > mathematics.
>
> I've been doing critical thinking all my life, and exposure to
> mathematics was not necessary to make it possible, nor did it enhance my
> ability to do it to any extent.

Perhaps, all these years, you've been using mathematics without knowing
it! 

-- 
A.

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