Re: Apples

dlzc wrote:

Barry wrote:

But I haven't managed to find any physics texts that
have much to say about why and how the apples
climb trees in the first place.

Can anybody give me a reference?

This is why doctors are kept away... they fear falling apples.

You give no references, but I'll let that pass.

It would follow that before there were doctors apples didn't climb
trees.

Unfortunately, the evidence suggests that doctors have existed for
50,000 years at the most and that apples had been climbing trees for
several million years before that.



It's been suggested to me, in private correspondence,
that apples actually build trees for the specific purpose
of falling from them. Frankly, I find that to be a ridiculous
idea. Any suggestions as to how I can refute it?

No, but as an aside, elephants get up in oak trees by sitting on
acorns.

If

(i) all doctors are afraid of apples.

and

(ii)

all elephants aren't afraid of apples

then I suppose we can conclude that no elephants are doctors and no
doctors are elephants.

The intersection between doctors and elpohants is the empty set.

That seems logical, but it's refuted observationally - I've seen
doctors eating apples.

Therefor it is still possible that some elephants are doctors and
vice-versa.

Barry

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