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To: D-fendr
Sorry: C2= A2+ B2 is not a "real world proof" ? should be Proof of C2= A2+ B2 is not a "real world proof"?

No it is not. The real world is the proof of the mathematical description, not the other way around. The real world is the proof; not the math. Math must correspond to the real, detectable, perceptible, measurable, etc. world or else is a theoretical fiction.

52 posted on 04/10/2010 8:53:52 AM PDT by kosta50 (The world is the way it is even if YOU don't understand it)
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To: kosta50
>>>Proof of C2= A2+ B2 is not a "real world proof"?
No it is not. The real world is the proof of the mathematical description, not the other way around. The real world is the proof; not the math.

Some time ago, humans discovered that the quantifiable part of the real world is understandable and successfully modeled by mathematics. That if you take 2+2+2+2 apples you'll have 8 apples and if you cut them in half, you'll have 16 pieces. Every time.

Math works every time in the quantifiable real world. You can prove something by math and you have proved it "in the real world." If you won't take math as proof, you can't take logic as proof, and you have to cut every apple in half to "prove" 1+1=2. Until you find another apple.

Math proof has been considered "real" proof for a long long time.

58 posted on 04/11/2010 8:14:36 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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