{"id":1068,"date":"2008-01-23T09:43:38","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T16:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2008-01-23T09:43:38","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T16:43:38","slug":"perfection-within-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2008\/01\/perfection-within-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"perfection within itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve thought this for a long time about Math.<\/p>\n<p>Math (and science, to a degree) is perfect. It is a universe with perfect lines. <\/p>\n<p>It is NOT real. It is completely manufactured. It is completely defined. Nothing that math can do is without meaning.<\/p>\n<p>and that&#8217;s because it was invented.<\/p>\n<p>My PMP stuff is the same. It is a universe of perfectly defined terms. The books constantly says, &#8220;You may THINK you know, but you don&#8217;t know until we say you know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is a world of defined terms&#8230;words that, in fact, may have a meaning competely different outside itself, but a meaning which must be abandoned at the door.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Because anything that doesn&#8217;t match it is rejected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve thought this for a long time about Math. Math (and science, to a degree) is perfect. It is a universe with perfect lines. It is NOT real. It is completely manufactured. It is completely defined. Nothing that math can &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2008\/01\/perfection-within-itself\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2008\/01\/perfection-within-itself\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}