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>Keith Knapp wrote to Mark Bloss about "Existence Exists"
 KK> "Perfection" may be a lovely concept in philosophy or theology,
 KK> but in science or technology the only important idea is making
 KK> it work.  No Shuttle launch has ever achieved a "perfect" orbit,
 KK> but all of them recently have achieved orbits with errors that
 KK> are trivially small.  The difference between those two points is
 KK> an important philosophical point -- the difference between science
 KK> and logic.
 You have done a marvelous job of supporting my point.  There is no
 such thing as "perfection" in the real world.  That is what I've
 pointed out numerous times.  But perfection is just precisely like
 an infinity - it's out there - we just never get there.  And without
 the ideal of perfection - we would not ever achieve orbits at all.
 
 
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