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To: tortoise; Alamo-Girl
Does this real system exhibit properties not describable in mathematics? I cannot think of any.

Well dear tortoise, maybe you're not "trying very hard."

On the other hand, maybe you are "trying very hard" to ignore the obvious. Maybe you even might imagine that the "mathematization" of any something puts it into our "control."

I don't know which it might be; likely it is neither.

But we must leave this interesting conundrum for another time; 'cause I've got to get some sleep! (I'm overdue.)

Hope to see you soon. Thank you truly for writing. Good night!

625 posted on 12/08/2005 8:17:50 PM PST by betty boop (Dominus illuminatio mea.)
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To: betty boop
Well dear tortoise, maybe you're not "trying very hard." On the other hand, maybe you are "trying very hard" to ignore the obvious.

Unfortunately, I really truly have no idea what you are talking about. I cannot think of anything in our universe that is not formally describable. My query is not entirely idle either, because a deeper argument would be that everything we can conceive of has a neat formal description ipso facto. Asserting a phenomenon has a formal description is not the same as having omniscience with respect to the internal state of that phenomenon.

Maybe you even might imagine that the "mathematization" of any something puts it into our "control."

Non sequitur, as best I can figure -- this does not parse as anything that makes sense to me.

628 posted on 12/08/2005 8:26:17 PM PST by tortoise (All these moments lost in time, like tears in the rain.)
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