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From: Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:29:10 -0700
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On 03/27/2025 10:12 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> On 03/27/2025 12:01 AM, Maciej Wozniak wrote:
>> W dniu 27.03.2025 o 07:14, x pisze:
>>> On 3/26/25 10:24, The Starmaker wrote:
>>>> take 2 eggs and put it in front of you...
>>>>
>>>> Where is the number 2?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> at the sign post up ahead..
>>>> You just crossed over into...The Platonic Zone!
>>>>
>>>> DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN-DUUUUNNNNN!
>>>>
>>>> and circles don't exist.
>>>>
>>>> and law of physics don't exist.
>>>
>>> Yup.
>>>
>>> Aristotle once said - friction exists?
>>>
>>> Newton once said - friction does not exist (at
>>> least in outer space)?
>>>
>>> What do you see when you actually drop an object
>>> on the ground?  An irregularly shaped object makes
>>> an impact with an irregularly shaped ground, and so
>>> it careens off in a chaotic direction?
>>>
>>> You MUST DENY this because it conflicts with
>>> the holy number '2'.  (And a bunch of other nice
>>> equations).  This is SCIENCE.  This is TRUTH.
>>
>> Every human institution lies (some more,
>> some less) and SCIENCE is no way an
>> exception. SCIENCE is not quite TRUTH.
>>
>
>
> There's truth in science, there's un-truths in not-science.
>
> Everyone knows significant digits and then also
> "perfect" numbers and also about numerical methods,
> the numerical approximations always with a nominally
> non-zero error term.
>
> Aristotle has 'no un-moved mover',
> yet also 'circular movement is eternal'.
>
> Aristotle has both prior and posterior analytical accounts,
> and also has both potential and actual infinity.
>
> Zeno proved the infinite-divisibility of time,
> and that it's sequential and as infinitely-divided..
>
> There are _failures_ in science,
> those are failures' faults, not science's.
>
> There's super-truth.
>
>
> Anyways, besides that mathematics is ubiquitously successful
> in science, so, the theory that it's perfect isn't falsified,
> then also science may be qualitative not quantitative.
>
> So, saying numbers aren't perfect and platonic isn't scientific.
>
>

See, once you get above the bots there's a lot less noise.