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To: abuelita who wrote (16563)4/6/2007 1:17:48 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (3) of 219648
 
Predictability is a mark of rationality Rose. For the mathematically illiterate, I hasten to explain that being predictable is not proof of rationality. But rationality can only exist with predictability. And, a corollary to that, is that only the rational can be the observer who determines the rationality of the observed, because the irrational observer will not cognize predictability in the observed. It's superficially a circular argument, but that's how reality works = reality is a self-defining business.

As a bonus, reality is inherently unpredictable for various fundamental reasons such as Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and bubbling quantum particles which might or might exist.

So, peculiarly, rationality is predictable while simultaneously being unpredictable. Which is problematic because the irrational and rational are stuck in the same situation with no mechanism to know which is rational and which isn't.

Hence, TJ is completely irrational, but entirely predictable, when he asserts that the inevitable is coming and not only that, but he KNOWS what that inevitability will be.

I hope that clears it up for you.

Mqurice
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