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Re: Why Math Works: Is math invented or discovered?

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benj <benj@nobody.net> wrote:
> On 11/28/2016 10:28 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> benj <benj@nobody.net> wrote:
>>> On 11/28/2016 5:16 PM, Virgil wrote:
>>>> In article <2e35ad12-2393-4f80-863a-55c697f44e1a@googlegroups.com>,
>>>>  Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Monday, November 28, 2016 at 3:47:22 PM UTC-5, Virgil wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Jul 26, 1:30? am, Mahipal7638 <mahipal7...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Jul 23, 12:50? pm, Benj <bjac...@iwaynet.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> ? The answer is simple:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> While Math may have its axioms, there are no axioms in Physics.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is one! Trust the observations.
>>>>>
>>>>> Good point, Virgil. I shall disagree, however. Observations are biased.
>>>>
>>>> Observers may be biased, but, at least on average, observations aren't!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Observations are always biased. Some more so than others. There is
>>> always uncertainty even when the tendency for observations to fulfill
>>> one expectations is minimal.
>>
>> Nonsense.
>>
>> The number in a set is an absolute without either bias or uncertainty,
>> e.g. the number of golf balls in a bucket.
>>
>> Measurements have uncertainty but not necessarily bias.
> 
> Oh look muffy, The nutjob is following me around! He's SO obsessed with 
> me. I think he's even more obsessed with me than HVAC!

Oh look, the kook is upset because I showed his nonsense to be nonsense.
 
> So you don't think it's possible to count the number of golf balls 
> incorrectly?

Doing something correctly or not was not the subject of you silly post
kook.

> Go back to engineering. Number in sets are pure fantasy, 
> not reality. Kooker.
 
Now the kook declares counting is fantasy.


-- 
Jim Pennino

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Re: Why Math Works: Is math invented or discovered? Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2016-11-28 12:07 -0800
  Re: Why Math Works: Is math invented or discovered? Yuri Kreaton <invlaid@invalid.com> - 2016-11-28 14:36 -0600
    Re: Why Math Works: Is math invented or discovered? Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2016-11-28 17:24 -0800
      Re: Why Math Works: Is math invented or discovered? Yuri Kreaton <invlaid@invalid.com> - 2016-11-28 21:05 -0600
        Re: Why Math Works: Is math invented or discovered? Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 08:03 -0800
  Re: Why Math Works: Is math invented or discovered? Virgil <VIRGIL@VIRGIL.com> - 2016-11-28 13:47 -0700
    Re: Why Math Works: Is math invented or discovered? Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2016-11-28 13:25 -0800
      Re: Why Math Works: Is math invented or discovered? Virgil <VIRGIL@VIRGIL.com> - 2016-11-28 15:16 -0700
        Re: Why Math Works: Is math invented or discovered? Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2016-11-28 14:45 -0800
        Re: Why Math Works: Is math invented or discovered? benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-11-28 20:32 -0500
          Re: Why Math Works: Is math invented or discovered? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-11-29 03:28 +0000
            Re: Why Math Works: Is math invented or discovered? benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-11-29 17:49 -0500
              Re: Why Math Works: Is math invented or discovered? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-11-29 23:56 +0000
                Re: Why Math Works: Is math invented or discovered? benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-11-29 19:35 -0500
                Re: Why Math Works: Is math invented or discovered? Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 16:53 -0800
                Re: Why Math Works: Is math invented or discovered? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-11-30 01:54 +0000
                Re: Why Math Works: Is math invented or discovered? benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-11-29 21:47 -0500
                Re: Why Math Works: Is math invented or discovered? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-11-30 06:08 +0000

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