Life Is A Process Which May Be

It Is Exceptional That One Should Be Able To Acquire The Understanding Of A Process Without Having Previously Acquired A Deep Familiarity With Running It, With Using It, Before One Has Assimilated It In An Instinctive And Empirical Way... Thus Any Discussion Of The Nature Of Intellectual Effort In Any Field Is Difficult, Unless It Presupposes An Easy, Routine Familiarity With That Field. In Mathematics This Limitation Becomes Very Severe.

The Sciences Do Not Try To Explain, They Hardly Even Try To Interpret, They Mainly Make Models. By A Model Is Meant A Mathematical Construct Which, With The Addition Of Certain Verbal Interpretations, Describes Observed Phenomena. The Justification Of Such A Mathematical Construct Is Solely And Precisely That It Is Expected To Work-that Is, Correctly To Describe Phenomena From A Reasonably Wide Area.

If One Has Really Technically Penetrated A Subject, Things That Previously Seemed In Complete Contrast, Might Be Purely Mathematical Transformations Of Each Other.

Any One Who Considers Arithmetical Methods Of Producing Random Digits Is, Of Course, In A State Of Sin. For, As Has Been Pointed Out Several Times, There Is No Such Thing As A Random Number - There Are Only Methods To Produce Random Numbers, And A Strict Arithmetic Procedure Of Course Is Not Such A Method.

Life Is A Process Which May Be Abstracted From Other Media.