Irrational Exuberance

You are writing a comment about Context is a Parameter in Calculating Truth, here is a quick summary:

Some thoughts about one of Pirsig's arguments in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FZen-Art-Motorcycle-Maintenance-Inquiry%2Fdp%2F0553277472&tag=irratioexuber-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325">Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=irratioexuber-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />, as viewed from the eyes of a programmer. Are my thoughts valid? Correct? True? Well. That probably depends on context.

You are responding to this comment written by Peter Burns on January 3rd 2008, 23:33.

Yes.

You could take the view that Newton's ideas of gravity weren't so much wrong as they were incomplete. Within a limited context (objects with moderate mass at sub-relativistic speed) his laws are excellent. They're almost flawless predictors. It's only within a wider context that there are sizable discrepancies.

I'm not sold on the term "context" here though.

Please be aware that comment forms go stale after one hour.

@@ ruby
def a (b, c):
  b * c
end
@@

 ### This is an h3 title
#### This is an h4 title
**this is bold**
*this is italics*

1. This is an
2. ordered list

* And an unordered
* list too

[this is a link](http://www.lethain.com/ "Lethain")