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Old 06-13-2003, 07:14 PM   #12 (permalink)
RatherThanWords
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yes! Mathematics is an absolute for one reason and one reason only. Math exists only in our minds. As soon as math is applied to science, it no longer becomes absolute. For example, nothing can measure absolutely 1 cm. It can be 1 cm or 1.0 cm or 1.00 cm. but an exact 1 would be 1.000000000000000000 with zeroes out to infinity (which is a direction, not a number), which is impossible.

I do agree that anything that exists SOLELY in our minds can be absolute.
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