Dookus
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Wed Apr-28-04 01:43 PM
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The concept of odd and even is NOT a philosophical illusion |
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Wed Apr-28-04 01:47 PM
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1. Prior thread on this... |
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Wed Apr-28-04 01:50 PM
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3. Well, enough math..... i've got to deliver these sandwiches |
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Wed Apr-28-04 01:54 PM
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4. ...Or go act as pResident... |
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Wed Apr-28-04 01:50 PM
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2. Math as an abstract construct |
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Math is a concept that our minds have creatd as a means to try to understand the universe around us. It's utility comes from the fact that it appears to be a very accurate model of the universe around us. But due to the limitation of our ability to "know" the universe about us, math remains an abstract construct and entirely a creation of our minds.
The number 2 does not exist. Not in a concrete self identify manner. It is a concept we apply to sets which satisfy limits we have given as definitions. The fact that it is even is defined by us. The fact that creating these sets and defining them as we do is so amazingly useful for understanding the universe about us does not change the fact that they are illusory concepts created by our own rules.
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Wed Apr-28-04 02:38 PM
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6. Well I guess that settles it, then. n/t |
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Wed Apr-28-04 02:58 PM
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Wed Apr-28-04 04:14 PM
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11. We don't need the universe around us for math. |
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Math is the most extensive collection of truth that mankind has gathered. Whether it can be related to anything outside of itself is irrelevant.
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Wed Apr-28-04 02:02 PM
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5. what about rock, paper, scissors? |
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Wed Apr-28-04 02:56 PM
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7. A piece on bad logic of even/odd, titled "One and only" |
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One is the most even of numbers. Nearly all odd numbers are incomplete, awaiting the addition or subtraction of another odd number to come into their own, themselves at last! stable, entire. The sole exception is one which is more complete, more contained even than the so-called even numbers, which, lacking a notion of the whole, the solely singular for the singleness, are destined to fragment and decay. One, the most even and inseparable of numbers, the definite article, will outlast them all. Surely it must be so.
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Wed Apr-28-04 04:09 PM
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9. One is the lonliest number that you'll ever do |
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Two can be as bad as one, it's the loneliest number since the number one.
Once again Rock and Roll explains the universe.
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