Date: Wed, 17 Mar 99 17:26:56 EST
From: "Brian J. Callahan" <Brian=J.=Callahan%MT%DFCI-AT-EYE.DFCI.HARVARD.EDU>
Subject: re:absolutes


Holden writes:
>That's like saying your going to drive 5 miles, but your going to skip the
>4th mile. It can't be done, and this is one of life's absolutes.

Except that the two are very different things; one is a physical, geographic, 
material thing, and the other is a metaphor or attempted description of the 
evolution of human thought processes.  This description or metaphor could be 
wrong.  5 miles is 5 miles.   As they say in topology, the map is not the 
territory.