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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (9926)	4/17/1998 3:35:00 PM
From: jhild	of 71178

Well, I can understand what you are saying, and I have tried to be careful to position my statements so as to be descriptive of my process as relative to me. My analogy is only that. I don't see it as an algebra per se. The calculus of my function to me does not as you might suggest support a monotonic relationship. How can it when my operator (function) is something like "Would I appreciate having this which I am about to do, done to me?", it's almost a guarantee that it is not monotonic. As to absolute anything that seems almost always relative. Our experience of the universe is limited to only the barest blink of mass/space/time possibilities. We can never know anything absolutely. As an engineer I am more comfortable thinking in terms that accept the implied relativity of our physical limits, or the limits of what is being considered. (Sort of like saying F=MA is good enough for my purposes.) So "near absolute" truth or reason is satisfactory for me to be useful. It is far more comfortable to me than the alternative of just accepting some external reason. Otherwise, I could just live by my astrological forecast.

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