Re: MD Quality and information theory

From: Valence (valence10@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Jan 01 2002 - 20:42:53 GMT


Graham,

> You wrote:
> The possible exception that I am thinking of are mathematical proofs.
Please tell me if I am wrong (I am no mathematician), but my
> understanding is that a mathematical proof is only accepted if it is
irrefutable. Pythagoras's theorem will always be true - no
> matter what end of the universe you exist in.

  You have become confused between "knowledge/belief" (which as we discussed
are merely species of opinion) and "definitions/conventions". But trouble
your brain over this mathematical conundrum no longer Graham. Instead see:
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, chap.22, p.236, the last
paragraph; it starts out.... "Poincare concluded the axioms of geometry were
CONVENTIONS...."

rick

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