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To: tortoise
Given some utility and interest, we could find out the answer to all these questions with a bit of effort.

Oh really. Unless I am misunderstanding you, you are saying we can find out where the tree and the seed came from?

284 posted on 01/26/2005 12:17:37 PM PST by BJungNan (National sale tax - end all this insane tax records paperwork.)
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To: BJungNan
Unless I am misunderstanding you, you are saying we can find out where the tree and the seed came from?

As much as we can find out where anything came from. Within the constraints provided by mathematics at least. For those things outside those constraints, there are few assertions we can make. The point is not that we can discern everything without limits, but that the limits are universal; there are no special exceptions that transcend the underlying math, no matter how much we wish this was not the case.

353 posted on 01/26/2005 1:17:15 PM PST by tortoise (All these moments lost in time, like tears in the rain.)
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