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To: St_Bill who wrote (13879)	1/3/2000 12:52:00 AM
From: Uncle Frank	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

That was a wonderful first post, Professor Taylor, and it serves as a great introduction for you. I'll look forward to more. Thanks, uf

To: St_Bill who wrote (13879)	1/3/2000 1:03:00 PM
From: Dinesh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Hi WWTaylor But if the truth be known, Aristotle's the last guy you want running the engineering department, since he thought that mathematics, dealing only with accidental (and not essential)properties of the real world, was useless in our quest for truth. Now we know why the math scores in our schools suck! That 'discovery' aside, isn't math the only 'science' where truthvalue of a statement can be established in absolute terms ? Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Medicine, etc. are mostly concerned with the 'probabibility' of being right. Empirical, in other words. Which may be good enough for day to day works (like 0.999 gold, or the usefulness of the MMR shot). This quest for truth also made maths more like religious studies. Anther pure branch of learning was music. In the olden days, pre-industrial revolution era, the scholar knew or appreciated at least these three branches of learning. I hope this help answer the original question, whatever it was ::-) -Dinesh