On Tue, 22 May 2007 15:59:13 GMT, "Jeff Strickland"
wrote:
"Bruce Jensen" wrote in message
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On May 20, 7:30 pm, Mike Vandeman wrote:
On 18 May 2007 10:08:33 -0700, Bruce Jensen
wrote:
On May 18, 8:32 am, Mike Vandeman wrote:
Here's a generalization for you: E=mc**2
No, it isn't.
It's a generalization, idiot. E depends on m, which can VARY. In other
words, it is GENERALLY true of all matter. That's cxalled a
"generalization". DUH!
My God, is there no end to it?
First off, it is not GENERALLY true of all matter - it is PRECISELY
true of all matter. "Generally" implies that there is some instance
in which it does not apply - and for this case, there is no such
discovered instance.
Second, the word for which you vainly search that applies to this
equation is "function," not generalization. Specifically, E is a
function of m. Must you misdefine and invent *everything* to try to
shore up your ridiculous arguments?
Welcome the Vandeman New World Dictionary, where the meaning of a word is
never defined in a manner which most people use it.
On top of everything else, I also have to teach you ENGLISH? Just
because you are too lazy to look in a dictionary? "a general
statement, law, principle, or proposition". QED Idiot.
PS
Mike, that is a generalization, E=mc2 is not a generalization.
Bank robbers drive cars, therefore all car drivers are bank robbers is an
invalid "generalization" that you frequently make relative to mountain bike
riders, but never make relative to other kinds of visitors to public lands.
Another generalization that does not hold true is, all PhDs are idiots.
Thank God you didn't go into physics or mathematics, which require
some level of discipline and precision - psychology, with all of its
hedging, rash generalizations and screwy malapropisms is the *perfect*
place for you. Please stay there.
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