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Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
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Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
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Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
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Level 4 abstraction is where mathematical thought take place. Mathematical objects are entirely abstract; they have no simple of direct link to the real world�"
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Then, there is such thing as infinite-dimensional space in mathematics...
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Not neccessarily. Sometimes the math just leads you there.Originally posted by Jane Griscti:
But isn't that because someone, somewhere had an experience, an intuitiion, that there is an infinite-dimensional space? Something in their experience as a person led them to create an abstraction.
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Originally posted by Michael Ernest:
Quantum mechanics is unexplainable but the math works.]
Couldn't you say the same for Zeno's Paradox?
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Originally posted by Michael Ernest:
My point about metaphors and similes should have been made much stronger. Consider the difference between these two statements:
An airplane is like a big metal, bird.
An airplane is a big, metal bird.
One of these statements, without the other to interfere with it, invites comparison, analysis, a breakdown of common traits.
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1) math abstractions often do not have direct correspondence in human experience
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Originally posted by Jim Yingst:
Punching someone on the nose proves that Zeno's math doesn't work - but it's Zeno's fault, not mathematics. He implicitly assumes that an infinite number of steps cannot be completed in a finite amount of time. Veterans of the rope-burning problem know better, of course.
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Originally posted by Michael Ernest:
Isn't Visual Basic an example of metaphorical programming, i.e., appearing to program through figurative expression, but not actually doing it?
And I thought I was just a crazy Russian woman who loves to entertain MD citizens.
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Originally posted by Jim Yingst:
Re: Map quoting Alistair Cockburn's paraphrase of Kent Beck:
Gee, when they say it, it almost makes sense.
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