Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: Lester Zick (lesterDELzick_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 03/20/05 

Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 16:00:53 GMT

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:26:55 -0500, "robert j. kolker"
<nowhere@nowhere.net> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:

>Albert Wagner wrote:
 
>> Neither mathematiker elitists nor their profession nor their language
>> are protected by law. You and your private religion are fair game, just
>> as you believe that theists are fair game. Your 'privileged' position
>> in society is not merit based, but merely assumed by you.
>
>I, personally, have no privileged place. On the other hand mathematics
>has made modern physics and ALL of its technological entailments
>possible. Our industrial and technological society has as one of it
>pillars mathematics. Without mathematics there would be no physics.
>Without physics there would be only crude technology. Certainly nothing
>much beyond what the Romans and the Greeks had.
>
>Mathematics is a necessary compenent of modern science.

Now replace the term mathematics in the foregoing with the phrase
modern math and see how stupid that makes your assertion look.

Regards - Lester

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