RE: Subsequent truths
November 20, 2011 at 12:25 pm
(This post was last modified: November 20, 2011 at 12:26 pm by IATIA.)
(November 20, 2011 at 12:13 pm)chadster1976 Wrote: When I teach, I will try to impose "2+2=4" mathematics in school because it has been verified time after time and is accepted as fact.
It is not a "fact", though it is universally "accepted". A fact can be proven, but an axiom cannot, it is accepted as a 'truth', not a 'fact'. It is an axiom through which mathematics is developed.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
