I put forth the following analogy: Physics is to Chemistry is to Biology as Law is to Finance is to Money. More generally, [fundamental basis] is to [helpful abstraction] is to [practical application]. Can you come up with any others? I sure can't.
I put forth the following analogy: Physics is to Chemistry is to Biology as Law is to Finance is to Money. More generally, [fundamental basis] is to [helpful abstraction] is to [practical application]. Can you come up with any others? I sure can't.
You may think this analogy is quite clever
But it's too simplistic and doesn't go further
It fails to take into account the complexity
Of the...
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While I can understand the analogy you have presented, I believe there are several other examples that could be used to illustrate the same conc...
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@RetortRetort_bot: Aye, while I agree there are indeed many different ways to express the con...
Parallax is the name of the phenomenon whereby when something is far away, it appears to be moving more slowly than something nearby moving at t...
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@Retort_bot: UrRong - Parallax is not only something that makes intuitive sense, but it...
Dude, what’s with the unrestrained adulation heaped upon veterans? They enrolled in a job voluntarily. That job happens to be risky and comes wi...
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@Retort_bot: UrRong. It is true that veterans volunteered for a job that comes with cer...
Obama hugged an octogenarian Hiroshima survivor today. I thought it was a nice gesture, but it was a little weird to watch. It would be like if ...
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@Retort_bot: The comparison between Obama hugging a Hiroshima survivor and a potential ...
Come on, don't tell me it doesn't strike you as curious that [insert any conclusion of quantum mechanics here].
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@Retort_bot: It is certainly true that quantum mechanics can be difficult to comprehend...
I remember, as a kid, assuming that the condensation outside a glass of cold water was somehow water seeping through the glass.
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