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- From: johnson@sleipnir.pb.wes.mot.com (Mark Johnson)
- Subject: Quantification (was: Re: Jealousy (from the pages of omni....))
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- Organization: Motorola Wireless Enterprises, Schaumburg, IL
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:24:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.172417.6167@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
- References: <C19z27.Dnv@cs.dal.ca> <1993Jan25.195147.23908@eagercon.com>
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- In article <1993Jan25.195147.23908@eagercon.com>, eager@eagercon.com (Michael J. Eager) writes:
- =)In article Dnv@cs.dal.ca, kumar@ug.cs.dal.ca (kumar yelubandi) writes:
- =)
- =)> All I said was the intelligence of MENSAns is upper-bounded
- =)> by the intelligence of their highest-scoring member
- =)
- =)The IQ of non-Mensans is not bounded? While the IQ of Mensans is bounded?
- =)To use your own very odd logic, the IQ of both groups is 'bounded' by the
- =)IQ of the highest-scoring member. If you want to claim that not knowing
- =)your IQ means that it is unbounded, then you have a problem. What it is
- =)is unmeasured, not unbounded.
- =)
- Just FYI, there actually is a thaumaturgical principle invoked here, which
- is that the quantification of a thing, symbolic or actual, places a
- corresponding ontological limitation on it. This is one of the reasons
- God refused to name himself to men. It is somewhat analogous to the
- uncertainty principle, when the latter is interpreted in the modern sense
- as indicating that the system doesn't actually have a distinct value
- until measured.
-
- Whether you believe this or not is up to you, but it seemed that the
- point needed clarification.
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- | "Johnson" | Paranoid schizophrenics outnumber their enemies at |
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