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Re: Evidence for "Big Bang Theory"
Carl J Lydick (carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU)
7 May 1995 08:56:07 GMT
In article <Admin.0wu9@oubliette.COM>, Panopticon@oubliette.COM (Eric Shook) writes:
=> =In article <Admin.0wdg@oubliette.COM>, Panopticon@oubliette.COM (Eric Shook)
=> =wrote::
=> =Well, gee, Proff, since zero didn't even exist as a concept prior to around
=> =800 A.D., then why is it _not_ also an intellectual concept?
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=>In article <3oe2mg$f6l@gap.cco.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
=> writes:
=>
=> Now, here we apparently have an idiot who confuses the existence with zero as a
=> concept with a the use of a digit to represent zero in a positional system of
=> numerical representation. The two things are NOT equivalent.
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=> Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
=
=Gee, you've really zeroed in on the point I was making!
=
=Zero as a symbol is the concept necessary for the abtract representation of
="nothing." Therefore, while "nothing" may have been conceived of well before
=zero was instituted as a symbol for it, the point I made was that zero must be
=an "intellectual concept." It is, after all, an abstraction.
Perhaps you'd explain to us how the word "nothing" fails to qualify as a symbol
for the representation of "nothing." If you can't do that, then perhaps you'll
havre the intellectual integrity to admit you don't know what you're talking
about, though I seriously doubt it.
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Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
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