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To: Alamo-Girl

You are going to have to wait a long time in order to know the full state of everything. Randomness can be discerned in a phenomenon without knowing everything.


704 posted on 12/09/2005 10:03:45 AM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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To: js1138; betty boop
You are going to have to wait a long time in order to know the full state of everything.

Actually, I would say that it will never happen because my understanding of "reality" is "God's will and unknowable in its fullness."

708 posted on 12/09/2005 10:16:14 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: js1138; Alamo-Girl; betty boop; cornelis
[ You are going to have to wait a long time in order to know the full state of everything. Randomness can be discerned in a phenomenon without knowing everything. ]

So then, not knowing the full exent of a system, in all its aspects, labeling random to some aspect of it is science then?.. and not philosophy.?. like labeling an unknown in math as X?.. and assuming X to be random occurrance, or at least highly variable.?.

710 posted on 12/09/2005 10:17:37 AM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
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