Re: Truth (was Re: virus: Language)

nobody (hup@planet.eon.net)
Thu, 26 Mar 1998 07:31:33 -0700


Eric Boyd wrote:

> Calculus (literally the mathematics of change) does indeed under lie the
> vast bulk of all of science, and it's an entire field of mathmatics unto
> itself. The most important change in science has always been time. It
> always puzzles me to think of what people did before Calculus was
> invented.
>
> ERiC

I think they attributed things to the gods, no?

Calculus says this, Zeus says that. I know its controversial to use the
term truth at the moment, but..

Both have their own truths, short of literal ones. The difference is
just merely.. different levels of abstraction and functionality.