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Fosdick 
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Message 9 of 35 (388854)
03-08-2007 10:40 AM
Reply to: Message 7 by MadaManga
03-08-2007 8:40 AM


Nothing = zero?
Nothing is perfect.
No, nothing is imperfect, because it is the only value that cannot be used as an algebraic denominator. (This assumes of course that nothing equates to zero.)
”HM

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Message 14 of 35 (388863)
03-08-2007 12:03 PM
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03-08-2007 11:00 AM


Re: Nothing = zero?
If nothing is imperfect, then doesn't that suggest that everything IS perfect o.O? And if everything is perfect, then wouldn't that include nothing ? Regardless, "nothing is imperfect" is pretty much a false statement, don't you think?
Maybe the question is: Is nature perfect or imperfect? I would posit that nature is only perfectly imperfect. There really is no perfect equality, no perfect vacuum, no absolute zero, no evolutionary progress, no ontological purpose, no hope for entropy reversal or eternal Truth, just a profusion of chaos that has little swirls of order here and there to make us think we can claim some measure of perfection in an imperfect world.
Nature would have to have a purpose to be perfect. (And why would God need to roll the dice so often if He really had a purpose?)
”HM

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Fosdick 
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Message 16 of 35 (388868)
03-08-2007 12:20 PM


Undecidable Propositions
It may be relevant to mention here that mathematics rules in all robustly logical formulations, and that Kurt Gdel rattled our foundation of mathematics very badly when he proved that:
'All consistent axiomatic formulations of number theory include undeciable propositions."
”HM

  
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