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Old 10-20-2004, 10:10 AM   #41 (permalink)
adysav
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Originally Posted by Master_Shake
We see a sphere and treat it as such. But spheres don't exist as individual things in the real world, the only reason it's a sphere is because we call it such. Math is a subjective approach to reality.
I would say that maths is the only objective approach to reality.
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Originally Posted by Master_Shake
A single sphere to you might be a collection of one thousand carbon atoms to another.
This wouldn't be a sphere.
You can mathematically describe any object, but simplifcations are often used because.. they're simpler.
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