[lbo-talk] Chuck's Cassirer posts

[Carrol Cox]

Any physical relationship may be expressed mathematically. That is one
acievement of Descartes that has never been rejected. Why is a mere
tautology weird? Stephen Gould had lots of fun finding utterly
irrelevant relationshis which could never the less be expressed in
elegant mathematical terms. His fun was in laughing at those who found
such relationships weird.

Carrol

Chris Doss wrote:
> 
> Uh, yeah, and that's equally weird.
> 
> --- On Thu, 6/19/08, Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
> \> >
> > I don't get what's so weird.  For instance, there
> > are specific
> > mathematical relationships between different wavelengths
> > and intensities
> > of light, and movies (made of light) can provoke strong
> > emotional reactions.
> >
> > Miles
> 
> 
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