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10-19-2005, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by AntonioLao
Personally, I think this would be the mathematics of absolute certainty. However, if everything is certain then why do we need math?
But why should it be absolute certanty at all?

You say that any mathematics level contains all the previous mathematics levels, so, if this is true, then the mathematics of higher level of probability must contain probability, which impplies non absolute certainty, thus, the new math cannot be absolute certainty.
  
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