I was taught in school that when searching for clarity, one must go back to the most basic assumptions sifting through the layers until the initial disagreement about an assumption arises.
You cannot talk about calculus unless you agree that 1+1=2. Without that assumption, nothing else matters.
I think I have the root of our disagreement. You seem to be a post modern thinker, where one does not hold Truths to be Universal but instead relative to the pertinent situation.
At this point I am not sure that we can agree that 1+1=2, and that seems to be the rub.[/quote]
That’s a very thoughtful observation. I think you’re onto something there.
I imagine techies and the like (who seem to be the majority here) are more inclined to think of the world in black and white, whereas people like myself (definitely non-techies) tend to think of the world as being 99% grey.
