[FRIAM] New Mexican's Sunday's story on education proficiency

[Frank Wimberly]

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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Santa Fe, NM 87505

505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM

On Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 9:33 PM Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi   Jon,
>
> As a Peircean, I neverdoubted it for a minute.  A true ;roposition is one
> upon which we will agree in the very long run.  A real thing is any concept
> about which a true proposition can be uttered.   I think that makes
> numbers, and right triangles real given that 3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2 and  that the
> squire upon the hippopotamus is equal to the son of the squires on the
> other two hides. So they are real even though we will neverever touch one.
>
> Weird.
>
> Nick
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Jon Zingale <
> jonzingale at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, July 22, 2024 6:22 PM
> *To:* friam at redfish.com <friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] New Mexican's Sunday's story on education
> proficiency
>
> Numbers are real things. The more one explores them, the more experiences
> one has of them, the more confidently one comes to rely on them.
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