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You are moving someone else's goalposts I answered where circles are in our universe and you then try to change the original intent of omalleyt's question to m
by justifier 10y ago
You are moving someone else's goalposts
I answered where circles are in our universe and you then try to change the original intent of omalleyt's question to mean a symbolic representation of pi
> It would take an infinite amount of power to calculate every digit in pi
Calculating pi is so simple life without nervous systems does it
Now, expressing that value in our limited yet overly verbose base ten symbolic representation would indeed require infinite recursion
- kordless 10y agoI'm not aware of a means by which goal posts can exist in a philosophical debate around rational vs. irrational thinking. Both types of thinking are valid, but I can see how and why some tend to argue for absolute rationality at all times.
- justifier 10y agoI apologise, I thought you were implying that what omalleyt 'really meant' was a perfect circle is data we can calculate It seemed to me you were changing the question that was being asked, and a question asked implies an answer, or 'goal post' But if you were just developing new inquiry stead building off omalleyt then I apologise and would hope to encourage like critical thinking in the future .. Thinking on it 'goal posts'.. and 'soap box' elsewhere in this thread.. lacks a timeless quality, I really should have left it out ;P
- kordless 10y agoI asked my daughters friend why pi was irrational, and she said "because you have to calculate it". The knowledge of those calculations cannot be given, but the way to calculate it, with a bit of suffering, can.