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>Mr. Rigor wrote to Mark Bloss about "Existence Exists"
 MB> Why bother using a square to prevent mistakes while making a dresser,
 MB> or to prevent a mishapen drawer? Why use a plumb-bob?  Why use a
 MB> level? Why measure _anything_?
 MR> To get "close enough".
 
 MB> if perfection is a fiction.  Why all the complex mathematics to
 MB> program a space-craft on its way to the moon?
 MR> To get "close enough".
 
 MB> Wouldn't chance offer better chances then, if it were not for
 MB> perfection?
 MR> If it were not for _what_?
 It's interesting you believe that we can get "close enough" without
 the ideal of perfecting being something to which we use to gauge 
 "close enough" in the first place!  It is astounding actually; that
 any person would assume we can grasp perfection - but we must
 know of its existence; for all our getting "close enough" to it.
 
... Being good at being stupid doesn't count.
--- GEcho 1.11++TAG 2.7c
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