Your response demonstrates the point of the poem, which is that people tend to blindly seize on parts, leap to conclusions on that about the whole, and get it wrong. Using the same method, but acquiring different evidence, misperceiving it, and being too eager to adopt a position or course of action before they know enough, is the common error of everyone in trying to cope with large, complex phenomena, like political systems.
Mathematics is not about evidence. The elephant is real, but the blind men don't see it. On 10/18/2009 05:43 PM, Sasan wrote: > If there is no such thing as Truth then how do you explain mathematics? > > If everyone's opinion is equally valid and equally wrong then what is the > point of using logic? > -- Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------- Constitution Society 2900 W Anderson Ln C-200-322, Austin, TX 78757 512/299-5001 www.constitution.org [email protected] -------------------------------------------------------------------
