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Re: Interpretation

Posted By: Dave, on host 206.124.3.145
Date: Sunday, May 19, 2002, at 21:57:11
In Reply To: Re: Interpretation posted by Sam on Saturday, May 18, 2002, at 20:53:31:

> No: to know, you must first believe. What's
>more, you're neglecting the objects of these
>verbs, which breaks it out of the recursion.
>Recursion is not bad: recursive programming is
>the best way to solve certain problems.
>Recursion is only flawed when you get into an
>infinite loop over it; otherwise, it's simply
>cyclic.

But in order to break out of a recursive loop, you must leave the loop when you've satisfied some condition. And with this loop, the only condition I see that would allow you to break out of it is "The Bible is not the inspired Word of God." And you've already intentionally and willfully removed this clause from the loop before even entering into it. So how is it not an infinite loop?

-- Dave

Replies To This Message

Re: Interpretation - Sam - Mon, 5/20/2002, 09:09:28
- Re: Interpretation - Dave - Mon, 5/20/2002, 11:19:04
  - Re: Interpretation - Sam - Mon, 5/20/2002, 14:02:25
    - Re: Interpretation - Dave - Mon, 5/20/2002, 15:38:00
      - Re: Interpretation - Sam - Mon, 5/20/2002, 17:11:27
        
        Re: Interpretation - Dave - Mon, 5/20/2002, 19:05:08
    - Re: Interpretation - Dave - Mon, 5/20/2002, 15:04:47
      - Re: Interpretation - Sam - Mon, 5/20/2002, 16:52:16
        
        Re: Interpretation - Dave - Mon, 5/20/2002, 18:50:58
        
        Re: Interpretation - Don the Monkeyman - Wed, 5/22/2002, 22:43:45
        
        Re: Interpretation - Norton Fleeing - Thu, 5/23/2002, 00:17:11
        
        Re: Interpretation - Dave - Thu, 5/23/2002, 09:18:50
        
        Re: Interpretation - Don the Monkeyman - Thu, 5/23/2002, 18:28:20
        
        Re: Interpretation - Frum - Fri, 5/24/2002, 00:14:12
        
        Re: Interpretation - Dave - Thu, 5/23/2002, 19:43:26
        
        Re: Interpretation - Don the Monkeyman - Thu, 5/23/2002, 20:21:02
        
        Re: Interpretation - Mousie - Fri, 5/24/2002, 09:41:04
        
        Re: Interpretation - Don the Monkeyman - Sun, 5/26/2002, 12:10:08
        
        Re: Interpretation - Dave - Thu, 5/23/2002, 23:17:48
        
        Re: Interpretation - Sam - Thu, 5/23/2002, 07:46:20

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Message:	> > No: to know, you must first believe. What's > >more, you're neglecting the objects of these > >verbs, which breaks it out of the recursion. > >Recursion is not bad: recursive programming is > >the best way to solve certain problems. > >Recursion is only flawed when you get into an > >infinite loop over it; otherwise, it's simply > >cyclic. > > But in order to break out of a recursive loop, you must leave the loop when you've satisfied some condition. And with this loop, the only condition I see that would allow you to break out of it is "The Bible is not the inspired Word of God." And you've already intentionally and willfully removed this clause from the loop before even entering into it. So how is it not an infinite loop? > > -- Dave
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