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Date:	Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:38:42 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: In retrospect

In <200302210942.h1L9gx87011785@well.com>, on 02/21/03
at 01:42 AM, "Gregory W. Smith" said:

>First, in another post Steven said that "faith" has nothing to do with
>it--I disagree strongly. In school, my introduction to formal
>mathematical proofs started with the basic axioms of geometry. Some
>things you accept without proof to get things started--you take it on
>"faith" that some things are true. If you don't like the word faith,
>find an acceptable synonym.

Aw, you're just having fun taking my statement out of context, What you
say about axioms is true, but axioms are hardly cast in stone.. I took
some of the same subjects. We also got to try out alternate sets of
axioms to see where they lead. In the end when dealing with read-world
situations, we choose the set of axioms that seem to best model what we
perceive to be the real-world or, at least, the subset of interest at the
moment. At slow speeds, assuming v = ma works OK, but it tends to break
down when we are going really fast.

Steven

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