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Originally posted by DJ_Elyot It's too bad that this thread went to hell. I think what's written there is an OPINION... and a very non-scientific, non-logical one at best. The areguments don't have any proof... many of them are non sequitur, and others are speculation at best. I think in an online community like this, people demand better information... they don't want to be manipulated by pretty wording... they want to be convinced by concrete statistics. The words you typed our are poetic, yes, but they lack anything valuable. I can throw a bunch of random words, numbers, and formulae at you, but if you don't understand what each variable means and what each symbol represents, they're useless to you. If you don't know how the formula was derived, then what's the sense of knowing it? Knowledge has to start from a beginning... a series of fundamental postulates... like Euclidean Geometry does. Then, each subsequent statement is proved by one or more preceding statements using the standard logical techniques (deduction, induction, proof by contradiction, proof by example, w/e). Your post has lacked this... that's why it has drawn so much criticism. It's not good knowledge. It's just poetic. The stuff in the TOTA forums was better.

Alright, sounds like a very reasonable answer. I'll contact my best friend, and as soon as he gets time, he will do a reply to many of the posts you TAs made! So dont bury this thread yet! He knows best about this stuff, better than me, cause he read all 8 books in the series.

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