If this were trying to accurately model the universe
Allow me to paraphrase Shockley, from when I took the course: "The most dangerous assumption you can make is that logic has any bearing on actual events. A proof is only as useful or as true as the propositions that go into it."
This isn't trying to accurately model the universe, not in the way that you're thinking. Forget the "verbal sense", the verbal sense is ambiguous and imprecise, which is why this notation was made in the first place.
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Re: Oh, shut up, Data
Date: 2003-08-28 06:19 pm (UTC)Allow me to paraphrase Shockley, from when I took the course:
"The most dangerous assumption you can make is that logic has any bearing on actual events. A proof is only as useful or as true as the propositions that go into it."
This isn't trying to accurately model the universe, not in the way that you're thinking. Forget the "verbal sense", the verbal sense is ambiguous and imprecise, which is why this notation was made in the first place.