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In article <hatunenD5pGF2.LFo@netcom.com>, hatunen@netcom.com (DaveHatunen) says:
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>In article <3kdbrq$kpr@shore.shore.net>, whittet <whittet@shore.net> wrote:
>>In article <3k869a$eie@gap.cco.caltech.edu>, carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) says:
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>>>Welll, hell, why don't we take your moronic analysis one step further:  The
>>>shortest path is actually a geodesic lying in a 1D Euclidian subspace.  Gee, I
>>>guess that means that Euclidian space is basically one-dimensional, eh?
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>>The phrase "it takes one to know one" springs to mind.
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>Are you thinking he knows one, or is one, or both?

Wow ! Talk about one dimensional !

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>>You could define a circle with a series of points but it would be
>>discontinuous and indeterminite in the space between the points
>>even if its curvature is implied or "embedded".
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>YOU could define a circle that way, but it wouldn't be the accepted
>definition. When are you going to get it into your head that you're
>nbot allowed to go around changing the definitons to suit the aprticlau
>argument you ahve at hand?

I am truly ROTFLMAO David.
The above inarticulate blather slathers its rage
("nbot", "aprticlau", "ahve")
in a wonderfuly unintentioned demonstration
of your fuzy thinking.

Calm down a little and maybe you will find it easier to understand what a
definition really is.

First we say what it is that makes something what it is...
Then we say what it is that makes it not something else...
Usually that defines a range of values.
We get to make some judgements...
Establish a little Law and Order...
Then somebody questions our conclusions !
and we get to go back and add on a little something more besides.

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>>It seems a reasonable supposition that there is an analagous discontinuous
>>and indeterminate nature to the 3d curve "embedded" in 2d. If not, what
>>is there to stop us from saying that the 4d curve of motion is embedded in
>>the 3d space, or that Becoming is the same as Being?
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>The definitions and mathematics required are already well established.
>What you "reasonably suppose" is irrelevant.

So, is Becoming the same as Being, David?
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Steve
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