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[Don Blazys]

To: Chiantiglace,

We can define the word "correct" as meaning both: "In relative agreement with all observed results", and "In perfect agreement with all observed results".

Thus, in reality, we have "degrees of correctness", as well as "absolute correctness".

Newton's "laws of motion" are "correct" in that they result in "very good approximations" if we are dealing with velocities that are relatively low when compared to the speed of light. However, Eistein's equations are an improvement in that they are actually much better than Newton's when measurements involving very high velocities are required.

The result 1+2=3, on the other hand, can't be improved upon, so it would qualify as being "absolutely correct".

Music was developed independently by each and every culture and civilization that has ever existed. (That's why it has so many forms.) However, all music shares certain "logical properties" so that any particular kind of music "makes sense" to virtually everyone. Thus, music is often regarded as a "universal language". I suspect that it's the same with math.



To: Ughaibu,

It's just my opinion, but "created" amounts to "artificial", "fake", and "trivial".

However, constructs that are "artificial", "fake" and "trivial" can be at least "partially correct".

Don.