From: MIKE OSSIPOFF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [EM] Usefulness of mathematics
>> Anthony said:
>> You're not telling me that people routinely object to any
>> post not explicitly justified by direct reference to concerns
>> actually stated by large numbers of voters, are you?
>> I reply:
>> I don't know, did I tell you that?
>> No, I didn't object to postings whose arguments were
>> irrelevant to public concerns.
>> Are you telling me that people think that any post that
>> points out the irrelevance of an argument is objecting to
>> the post that contains the argument?
Fortunately, I don't need to decode this because I wasn't
talking about semantic problems. I was talking abou this:
>> You seem to regard this as some sort of mathematical
>> game or art form that should be above such mundane
>> considerations as the concerns of voters and the
>> political and material consequences of the voting
>> system.
And I replied that whether it is mathematical has nothing to
do with whether it is mundane or above the concerns of voters
or pertinent to political considerations. Which is clearly
correct.
