Re: Chaos question from Re: Patriarchy: Re: What Matriarchy?

Len Piotrowski (lpiotrow@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
Wed, 14 Aug 1996 13:31:54 GMT

In article <smryan-1308961911350001@10.0.2.15> smryan@netcom.com (!@?*$%) writes:

>[snip]

>> Simple honest question --- while chaos theory calls into doubts our
>> scientific ability to make *exact* predictions of certain events, doesn't
>> it also provide the mechanism for accurate predictions of *patterns* for
>> those same events? (The simple example: we can't expect an accurate

>I've always been fond of sets whose shortest decision procedure is the
>total enumeration of their elements.

An especially satisfying classificatory procedure when the power set of a all
elements subsumes every class!

Cheers,

--Lenny__