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Generality vs. Specificty

Posted by Thorsten (M) on August 16, 2012 at 03:21:02

In Reply to: the forum's attack on questions of generality posted by Hi-Fi Nut on August 15, 2012 at 23:02:59:

Committee for Surrealist Investigation of Claims of the Normal

"The average Canadian has one testicle, just like Adolph Hitler -- or, more precisely, the average Canadian has 0.96 testicles, an even sadder plight than Hitler's, if the average Anything actually existed."

"The normal or average human lives in substandard housing in Asia, has 1.04 vaginas, and 0.96 Testicles, (italics added for clarity) cannot read or write, suffers from malnutrition and never heard of Silken Thomas Fitzgerald or Brian Boru."

"The normal, consists of a null set which nobody and nothing really fits."

"The normal does not exist. The average does not exist. We know only a very large but probably finite phalanx of discrete space-time events encountered and endured."

"The normal having vanished, most generalizations, especially about nonmathematical groups, disappear along with it."

"The monorchoid Mr. Hitler, for instance, could not generalize about "the Jews", because first he would have to find a normal or average Jew, which appears as intracible to demonstration as exhibiting the Ideal Platonic Jew (or the Ideal Platonic Chicken Farm complete with Ideal Platonic Chickenshit.)."

"To say it otherwise, world Jewish population stood at about 10 million when Hitler formed his generalizations. He could not possibly have known more than at maximum about 500 of them well enough to generalize about them; considering his early prejudices, he probably knew a lot less than that. But taking 500 as a high estimate, we find he generalized about 10 million individual persons on the basis of knowledge limited to around 1/20,000 or 0.005 % of them."

"It seems, then, that Naziism could not have existed, if Hitler knew the difference between norms or averages (internal estimates, subject to error due to incomplete research or personal prejudice) and the phalanx of discrete nonnormal events and things (including persons) that we find in the sensory space-time continuum outside."

Taken from Robert A. Wilsons Article on Csicon


Thor

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