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You need to distill his theory, or your interpretation of it to something of 100 words or fewer. Well, that puts me out of this game, I suppose. Sorry to sidetrack your proceedings. {stahrwe comment: Why do you think it makes a difference to God how many people are praying? Much of the benefit of p...

Meanwhile I did not have a clue what THEY meant by inductive. I am under the impression that in common usage, inductive reasoning means that you are taking a large number of observations of specific cases that concur, and drawing the conclusion that a general rule can be derived from these observat...

Maybe you are correct, Robert. Upon reading Robby's post, it does appear that Robby is asking for algebra such as you provided. However, I am (was) under the impression that what Robby & I were discussing was the difference between discovery and invention in mathematics. But I fully understand t...

I should say that Feynman's explanation took about an hour, so I hesitate to include it here. If you are interested, see:
http://vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8

A true expert in a subject should be able to explain the basics in an understandable way. Alas, I am not a true expert. Feynman was, however. His explanation is that a photon (for example) needs to follow ALL the trajectories at once, if it is to get where it's going, and satisfy the statistics of ...

Go for it, Robert! This is great! (And so concise!) So, Robby, now do you know how to do algebra? Do you know all about deduction, proof, and the process of mathematical discovery? If not, we will leave it to Robert's capable hands, who not only knows all this, but also knows the very key to the uni...

Sure, they are free to do whatever turns them on, but I am equally free to walk away when that corporate entity seems not to reflect MY principles, or the principles I believe THEY ought to reflect. And, as in all these relationships, their attitudes affect who will choose to shop with them and asso...

I started googling around to see good examples to draw on. I see that the general population (including math teachers) are being taught some unmathematical definitions for induction / deduction. Perhaps I myself am going insane? (I wouldn't be the first!) But to me, any proof at all relies on laws o...

Really, it works in both directions. But I presented it going down, so that you'd see it "bottoming out". I'm not clear what you are saying in the second line, and what that has to do with "deductive". In math, all proofs are deductive, in that they rely on chains of reasoning an...