[Kevin] Good things, these tolerances and variances. They help us to communicate and to know quality. Not too long ago an automobile's useful life was 100,000 miles. Today, most automobile manufacturer's deliver product that achieves twice that. The reason for the improvement is more repeatable and reproducible manufacturing processes (e.g., machine tools and gauges) and the statistical methods that enable manufacturers to translate data into meaningful information that can then be used to monitor and control the processes, i.e., the advent of feedback loops in manufacturing, e.g., Shewart or Deming cycle; Plan, Do, Check, Act, Plan, Do...
[Case] You are discussing a process here that can go on infinitely. Regardless of how small we set or measure these tolerances, there will always be a difference between the ideal and the real. My point is that early recognition of this led Plato to give the ideal a higher status than the real. This resulted in a view of the real world as depraved and evil at least in the western tradition. It is this central point that divided the rationalists and empiricists. It is at the core of the mind-body, subject-object duality. If the world we imagine was identical to the world as it is, this split would never have occurred to anyone. moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
