Re: The Suspicious Journals of Ross A. Kosmanson :-)

On 03/27/2025 12:01 AM, Maciej Wozniak wrote:

W dniu 27.03.2025 o 07:14, x pisze:

On 3/26/25 10:24, The Starmaker wrote:

take 2 eggs and put it in front of you...
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Where is the number 2?
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at the sign post up ahead..
You just crossed over into...The Platonic Zone!
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DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN-DUUUUNNNNN!
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and circles don't exist.
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and law of physics don't exist.

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Yup.
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Aristotle once said - friction exists?
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Newton once said - friction does not exist (at
least in outer space)?
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What do you see when you actually drop an object
on the ground?  An irregularly shaped object makes
an impact with an irregularly shaped ground, and so
it careens off in a chaotic direction?
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You MUST DENY this because it conflicts with
the holy number '2'.  (And a bunch of other nice
equations).  This is SCIENCE.  This is TRUTH.

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Every human institution lies (some more,
some less) and SCIENCE is no way an
exception. SCIENCE is not quite TRUTH.
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There's truth in science, there's un-truths in not-science.
Everyone knows significant digits and then also
"perfect" numbers and also about numerical methods,
the numerical approximations always with a nominally
non-zero error term.
Aristotle has 'no un-moved mover',
yet also 'circular movement is eternal'.
Aristotle has both prior and posterior analytical accounts,
and also has both potential and actual infinity.
Zeno proved the infinite-divisibility of time,
and that it's sequential and as infinitely-divided..
There are _failures_ in science,
those are failures' faults, not science's.
There's super-truth.
Anyways, besides that mathematics is ubiquitously successful
in science, so, the theory that it's perfect isn't falsified,
then also science may be qualitative not quantitative.
So, saying numbers aren't perfect and platonic isn't scientific.