[MD] The Role of Evolution, Time and Order in Pirsig's "Metaphysics of

[MarshaV]

KO,

Thank you.  My respect for mathematics is growing.


Marsha



At 04:13 AM 2/10/2009, you wrote:
>I agree Marsha,
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>people saw that things fell to the ground before Newton and, as you say,
>some referred to that tendency as 'gravity', but it seems Newton was the
>first to put some predictive numbers to it.
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>-KO
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>2009/2/9 MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net>
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> > Thank you Bo and Ron,
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> > I'm going try to live with this for a while.
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> >  [Ron:}
> >> Bo dodges the question:
> >> I did it up above. Let me ask you something. Do you understand
> >> the Newton Gravity argument in ZAMM?
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> > I'm not sure how you are setting up the 'argument'.   Did gravity exist
> > before Newton?  No.  There was no recognized pattern before Newton's law of
> > universal gravitation.  Although the label 'gravity' had been used prior to
> > Newton, and there were a bunch of men looking for a useful pattern to
> > represent it.  If you want more you'll need to set up a broader problem.
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> > Marsha
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