Well you also have to be realistic about these things.
When I say that a dart I throw will hit the bullzeye, I can give you odds that I will be correct. We are judging a single event whether it will happen or not.
Indeed there are an infinite (technically) places within and outside of the bullzeye that the dart could go, but you can still give odds.
I believe, now this is completely unfounded, but hear me out, that there is some level at which only a finite number of acctions can occure, this level is probobly way beyond subatomic.
And the concept of infinity can be introduced into mathematics, it's called calculus. The whole process assumes what things would be at infinity by observing what happens as we approach infinity. It's a proven concept.
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Originally posted by THEINCREDIBLEdork:
In the sense of figuring out the laws of the Universe, your beginning assumptions that make the foundation for all future reasoning must be concrete and absolute, not allowing for any anomalies.
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Whether you realize it or not, you have just brought up one of the oldest questions in the book. How are we supposed to learn anything at all when all we have are observations of the world around us.
In my Greek Philosophy class we spent an entire 75min lecture on the phrase "It is (it exists)" as proposed by Heraclitus as the only thing that humans actually know. I urge you to take something from "It is" and make something fruitful out of it. The fact is you can't. All knowlede that we posses, even mathematics is "unfounded" as Plato described it (allthough he left an exception to knowledge of "The Forms")
[ January 06, 2005, 07:49 PM: Message edited by: DJ FC ]