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Re: Religion, etc.
Jesse S. Cook III (jcook@AWOD.COM)
Wed, 31 Jul 1996 13:26:41 -0400
John McCreery writes:
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>"Still puzzles me why anthropologists tend to one-dimensional constructions
>of the objects we study (in this case Ron's scale from individual to
>ecclesiastic).That's why it impressed me so much when I saw that Mary
>Douglas had two ("group" and "grid"). Now I know that using two is a
>perfectly standard move by market researchers. Three isn't that hard to
>visualize, and physicists nowadays routinely deal with 10 or more.
The only place that physicists "deal with 10 or more" dimensions is in
string theory, which is attempting to be a "theory of everything" but so far
hasn't made it. Physicists certainly do not "routinely" deal with ten or
more dimensions.
Jesse S. Cook III E-Mail: jcook@awod.com
Post Office Box 40984 or
Charleston, SC 29485 USA 201-9573@mcimail.com
"Our attitude toward others is not determined by who *they* are;
it is determined by who *we* are."
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