>*&%$!? Messier ?!#@
I sometimes think words are kind of like burrs, attaching to themselves
all sorts of fluff and random fur and other burrs according to their
usage and context - and then they get carried off to another place, and
bury themselves into the ground, and grow into - a pheonix! a spire! a
pair of boots!
or maybe another burr bush...
So they never quite say what you mean them to say. If you're lucky, you
might get similar colours of fluff to adhere to them in different
contexts.
Whereas mathemeticians can clean a number of all fluff and fur, and
assign it an arbitrary value which can then be transformed through
logical permutations, but predicated always on its precise initial value.
Though I guess there are areas (like fuzzy logic) where this dance is
not so aesthetically pure... yes? The complex sciences suggest different
possibilities, but they're investigations of organic realities. I'm not
nearly competent enough to judge, but I would think that even there the
same basic mathematical laws pertain.
Best
Alison
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