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From: cgrussel@bradford.ac.uk (Vibrating Bum-Faced Goats)
Subject: Re: Off topic response to an off topic message--> was:Re: Software
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Date: 1997/06/10
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Craig Franck (clfranck@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
: "H. Blakely Williford" <blakew@fuller.com> wrote:
: >Dann Corbit wrote:
: >> (Vibrating Bum-Faced Goats) writes:
: >> >
: >> > > Mathematics exists in the mind alone.
: >
: >can you look at a sun rise and say this?
: >
: >the way the particles in the upper atmosphere refract the light?

: You are not helping the cause any. Color arises from how are brains
: process light, and does not exist independently of our perceiving it.

<SNIP>

: It is not like the word "tree" was laying about, just waiting to be
: discovered, any more than the symbol "2" was. In this sense (and in
: many others as well) math is a product of our brains.

That's exactly what I'm trying to say. 

--
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