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To: Right Wing Professor
What stuff?

Proof by inspection.

Who's we? You and the small subset of other pure mathematicians with a chip on their shoulder about the real world?

The real world is a special case.

As far as I'm concerned, mathematics is a tool for the sciences.

And that is why you fail, young padawan.

Mathematics is all things. It is all that we know. There are three forms of learning: Mathematics, experimentation, taxonomy.

Mathematics is the highest form. It encompasses all high-order knowledge. Information in mathematics reverberates a thousand-fold across all sciences. Or to put it simply: I know everything, I just don't know what you choose to call it.

The next level is experimentation. While essential, it's intellectually lower on the scale.

Taxonomy just gives names to stuff and many economists have made a very good living at that.

We're happy to have mathematicians work out the gory details of algorithmic computability,

That is not mathematics. That is computer science. But they're good people.

194 posted on 11/25/2005 7:37:41 PM PST by AmishDude (Your corporate slogan could be here! FReepmail me for my confiscatory rates.)
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To: AmishDude
And that is why you fail, young padawan.

LOL!

Mathematics is all things. It is all that we know. There are three forms of learning: Mathematics, experimentation, taxonomy.

Nah. Math is what you do to check your conclusions when the real science is done.

Mathematics is the highest form. It encompasses all high-order knowledge. Information in mathematics reverberates a thousand-fold across all sciences. Or to put it simply: I know everything, I just don't know what you choose to call it.

Oh, you know everything. I see (edging away).

196 posted on 11/25/2005 7:50:20 PM PST by Right Wing Professor
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To: AmishDude

The real world is a special case....

Mathematics is all things. It is all that we know....

Mathematics is the highest form. It encompasses all high-order knowledge...

Trolling for attention now instead of just amusement?.

197 posted on 11/25/2005 7:51:29 PM PST by ml1954 (NOT the disruptive troll seen frequently on CREVO threads)
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To: AmishDude
["Mathematics is the highest form. It encompasses all high-order knowledge. Information in mathematics reverberates a thousand-fold across all sciences."]

I've always felt that it's the natural organic biology of the universe that dictates its shape and behavior, and that mathematics merely describes that shape and behavior, but in no way drives it.

Stated differently, mathematics is merely a theory which happens to fit the facts.
204 posted on 11/25/2005 8:09:13 PM PST by starbase (One singular sensation.)
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To: AmishDude
Mathematics is all things

I really think it starts with logic, but that was what my philosophy professor stated, and he was biased. In any case, without those two, everything else would be merely polemics.

209 posted on 11/25/2005 8:20:35 PM PST by AndrewC (Darwinian logic -- It is just-so if it is just-so)
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To: AmishDude
Mathematics is the highest form. It encompasses all high-order knowledge. Information in mathematics reverberates a thousand-fold across all sciences. Or to put it simply: I know everything, I just don't know what you choose to call it.

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA!

294 posted on 11/26/2005 8:20:38 AM PST by balrog666 (A myth by any other name is still inane.)
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To: AmishDude
Or to put it simply: I know everything, I just don't know what you choose to call it.

Wow. Just *wow*

Take a bit of friendly advice and seek some professional help.

311 posted on 11/26/2005 2:30:08 PM PST by RightWingNilla
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