Re: Distinct linear orderings on Z
From: Albert Wagner (albertwagner_at_cox.net)
Date: 03/25/05
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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:05:41 -0600
Tony Orlow (aeo6) wrote:
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> Your problem is that you think circles have to be perfect. This is where my
> definition based on the path traced by a point under mutually interacting
> influences describes the kinds of circle we actually observe, which can get
> distorted through effects on those influences. Nothing's perfect, so no perfect
> circle, but no circle? I disagree.
In mathematics, everything /is/ perfect, because it is perfectly
imagined. Are you still laboring under the false idea that
mathematics has anything whatsoever to do with reality?
-- "I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives." - -- Tolstoy
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