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From: jhull@spp2.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Libertarianism: Anarchism, Schools, Defense, Society
Message-ID: <342@spp2.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 16:52:57 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  8 16:52:57 1985
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In article <2207@randvax.UUCP> edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall) writes:
>...
>What J. Bashinski seems to be arguing is that since good is hard to
>quantify, and since the good of the ``many'' is even harder to quantify,
>that we should forget about ever considering it at all.  Excuse me, but
>that's a coward's line of reasoning (or perhaps that of someone so
>caught up in the quantization of the world as to not see that much of
>it is not quantifiable)....
>
>		-Ed Hall

On the topic of analysis and quantifying things, Albert Einstein (you
remember him.  One of those people who DID understand this world
better than the rest of us :-)  ) said, "Insofar as mathematics is
precise, it does not describe the (real) world.  Insofar as
mathematics describes the world, it is not precise."

I think there is a lesson in there ... somewhere.


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					Blessed Be,

 					Jeff Hull
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